And like all incumbents stunned at the swift alienation of voters' affections, they look pretty bad.
This pledge might have seemed a good tactic to win the affections of the party's Eurosceptics.
But the businessman-turned-politician was becoming a rival to the king for the public's affections.
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After sensing Margot's affections for Halliday, her husband, Tony Wendice (Milland), fears divorce and disinheritance, and plots her death.
Her folk- and jazz-tinged vocal affections garner comparisons to fellow Canadian Joni Mitchell.
The XBox Kinect and the iPad run neck and neck for consumer affections.
These mods make games we loved in the last century challengers for the affections of gamers in this one.
The goal is to prove to fans that their affections are not being bought by fancy trips or special treatment.
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There are early passages on his troubled childhood and his abiding love for the Beatles, who returned his affections lavishly.
The two natty gents go to clubs and the races together, and spend weekends chaffing, quarrelling, and pledging their affections.
The idea is that down the generations, males evolved ever longer necks to dominate rivals for the affections of female giraffes.
Nelson Eddy, as the heroic baritone, tries to win the affections of Christine as he tracks down the murderous, horribly disfigured Phantom.
On "Buckwild, " Gandee was shown as a charming Southern guy who early on competed with fellow castmate Tyler for the affections of Cara.
And within the same dynamic, Miss Piggy's affections for Kermit, even affections tempered by occasional abuse, always have been a key softening factor for Miss Piggy.
While companies like Dell went crowdsourcing innovation Nokia tried to buy its way into the affections of thought leaders with the Ideas Project.
Set in a run-down Victorian house, it followed the misfortunes of Rigsby and his tenants Alan, Philip and Miss Jones - the object of his affections.
From a sports perspective, it was a nice change to finally have a single sentence that includes the real object of the affections by the labor combatants.
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The lovers in this city made such an elaborate production of their affections, especially considering that the natural expression of everyone else was either dour or resentful.
Uganda has a new rival for the West's affections in east Africa, since the Kenyan opposition crushed the crooked regime of Daniel arap Moi at an election in December.
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Crowdsourcing, unhitched from human or editorial intervention, becomes the search engine-based object of our affections, and it's no surprise that Google takes more than a few hits from Lanier's pen.
As ACT TWO opens, Elvira and her courtiers are talking about how easily Isabella has dominated Mustafa, giving Elvira hope that she might just regain her husband's affections after all.
Lee's affections for Lucy first came to light in series two, but despite arranging dates and kissing under the mistletoe, the pair have never quite managed to get it together.
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Jack Davenport plays the young, roguish gentleman who vies for Lady Windermere's affections - quite a change from his most famous role, as Steve in the ranchy BBC sitcom Coupling.
Yet many areologists, as students of Mars are sometimes known, could not let go of the idea that the object of their affections was once an active world like the earth.
Just look across town, where Tom Seaver still stands up as the ultimate object of Mets fans affections even though he played just a little more than half of his 20-year career there.
" His porcine producer accuses him of succumbing to "doubts, second thoughts and whims, " but Guido wins back his wife's affections at the last with the words "Life's a celebration, let's live it together.
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Tender, creamy and finished with a tasteful flurry of poppy seeds, the dish in front of me was more like a charming and coddled European paramour arrived to vie with the square-jawed, calloused-handed Yankee hash for my affections.
He brings together a tangy array of people whose place in the economy is sketched as clearly as their place in the chain of affections, and gets at the power relations that the most intimate connections depend on.
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