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With the prime-ministership, Eden inherited only a thin 19-seat majority from Sir Winston Churchill.

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Mrs. Bandaranaike is contesting her late husband's old seat at Attana-galla, near Colombo, and while she may keep a place in Parliament, she may well lose her prime-ministership.

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As the leader of one of the five main factions of the L.D.P., he has long sought to win the presidency of the party and thereby the prime-ministership.

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Sheik Mujibur Rahman, Awami's 47-year-old leader, is the top prospect for the prime-ministership.

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Disgusted with their desultory, hand-to-mouth existence, they yearned after respectability and a prime-ministership.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various