Icahn even unsuccessfully tried to win a seat on the company's board to prompt change.
But he was recently thrilled to see his son, albeit a Blairite, win a seat there.
She returned to Australia in 1949, where she failed several times to win a seat in parliament.
In what country did activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi win a seat in parliament?
Aung San Suu Kyi will try to win a seat in Burma's parliament in forthcoming by-elections, her party has confirmed.
Democrat Dan Maffei defeated Republican Dale Sweetland, who was trying to win a seat vacated by 10-term GOP Rep. Jim Walsh.
Expecting a low turnout, parliament recently lowered the threshold of votes a candidate must get in order to win a seat.
Bill McCollum, Mr Scott's opponent and Florida's attorney-general, is a drab campaigner who has twice failed to win a seat in the Senate.
Perhaps this has to do with my being the partner of the first openly gay man to win a seat as a nonincumbent.
But Hermitage, a minority shareholder in Gazprom, is notorious for launching assaults before its annual meeting, hoping to win a seat on its board.
Aznar's wife, Ana Botella, was expected to win a seat on the Madrid council and was likely to run the city's social services department.
These seats will be given to entities that didn't gain enough votes in a province to win a seat but took a large number of votes across the country.
There's speculation that Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari, will eventually seek to become prime minister but to be eligible he needs to first win a seat in a by-election in parliament.
Moshe Feiglin, a settler who is sure to win a seat in the Knesset on the Likud list, is a grim and wiry man afflicted with an acute case of ideological hyperactivity.
What is more, the local Labour candidate, Chris Llewelyn, supported Rhodri Morgan against Mr Michael in the Welsh leadership elections: if Mr Michael fails to win a seat, Mr Morgan will probably lead the assembly instead.
He led Germany's successful campaign to win a seat on the UN Security Council, earning praise for his ministerial work, and has taken the lead in calling for the withdrawal of German troops from Afghanistan beginning in 2011.
Ron Davies, Mr Michael's predecessor as secretary of state for Wales, had been openly campaigning to become first secretary of a devolved Wales in the hope that Mr Michael would fail to win a seat in the Assembly.
But in a lecture at Aberystwyth University she will announce that she is giving up the seat to try to win a constituency seat.
If the Democrats also win a disputed seat in Minnesota, as seems likely, Mr Specter's defection would give them a 60-vote supermajority in the Senate.
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Mr. Lautenberg emerged from a crowded field of Democratic candidates to first win a Senate seat in 1982.
Yau Yau first rebelled against Juba after he failed to win a parliamentary seat in the 2010 general elections.
In 1989, most forecasts favoured him to win a Senate seat for Santiago.
He was a young politician who couldn't win a congressional seat in his own neighborhood, and yet he was asking the state's political kingmaker to back him for a statewide race.
Fans can wait for hours to try and win a prize seat, the Web site said, but FIFA has now called on the Ivorian football federation and local authorities to carry out an urgent investigation.
Corruption among prosecutors and the judiciary makes it hard to obtain convictions even after the police arrest suspects and collect evidence, complains Boiko Borisov, who resigned as Bulgaria's chief policeman to win a parliamentary seat for Mr Saxe-Coburg's party.
He launched a political party in 1989 but was able to win a parliamentary seat only in the 2002 elections that were widely seen as tailored by the then military ruler, Gen Pervez Musharraf, to suit his own political aims.
It looks as though the clarity of Mr Bennett's opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state might hurt Mr Netanyahu and attract enough support to win the newcomer a seat in the cabinet.
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