So when the Democrats lost a key Senate seat in the Massachusetts special election a couple of months ago, it was expected that the health care bill would be defeated easily.
The Conservatives will be hopeful of holding on to Monmouth, and Neil Kinnock s old seat of Islwyn is a key Labour target seat, as the party strives to win an overall majority.
The normally low-key Carter ripped into the seat holder, William Higgins, who has filed for an injunction with a New York court to block the Dec 6. vote.
The seat liners are key because the escape module -- if needed -- would land on the ground and the seats need to fit precisely to properly protect a returning astronaut or cosmonaut, according to Mark Ferring, the flight director for Alpha.
The seat allocation was a key sticking point for the opposition, which wanted to ensure that it had the power to veto major decisions.
Now the permanent observers are being joined by China, Japan, India, South Korea, Singapore and Italy, meaning that all of the key Asian economies now have a seat at the Arctic table, even though they will not have a vote on the Arctic Council.
Mr. JOSHUA HOYT (Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Illinois): The numbers of naturalized immigrants in, for example, the key race for Henry Hyde's seat, has gone up 50 percent - from 60, 000 to over 90, 000.
The airline improved its key financial metric of passenger revenue per available seat mile (or PRASM) by 5.5% year-over-year, according to a statement.
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Cost per average seat mile (CASM), a key measure of unit costs, rose 10.5% to 12.26 cents.
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It is absolutely obvious to us that the key factor here is the fact that over the years airlines have been continually reducing the space between seat rows to cram more and more people in.
This resulted in him losing his seat in Parliament and not being able to stand again before he died, which was of course the key objective.
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