LEAD: Mayor Harold Washington shaking hands with Jane M. Byrne, his unsuccessful opponent in primary election last week, at a Democratic luncheon yesterday.

The play, "Adlai, Alone," focuses on the language, life and politics of Stevenson, the unsuccessful 1952 and 1956 Democratic opponent of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

(Ironically, that district was won by Cleo Fields, Holloway's unsuccessful opponent in 1990.)

The sanctions were used as an issue by his unsuccessful opponent, Jimmy Faircloth, in the 2009 special election for the Supreme Court.

Phillips shed his past segregationist image and ran to the middle, as had Williams' unsuccessful primary opponent, state Treasurer William Winter, who ultimately won the governorship in 1979.

Former Governor Ronald W. Reagan of California, Ford's unsuccessful opponent in the 1976 primaries, appeared in Monroe at a fundraiser on Spooner's behalf.

The EPO decision does not create an estoppel precluding a subsequent challenge by an unsuccessful opponent at the national level (at least before the English courts).

Merson lost to James Paul Johnson, who had been Aspinall's unsuccessful Republican opponent in 1966, in the general election in November 1972.

He disliked American bases on Australian soil, and he was a very prominent but ultimately unsuccessful opponent of the construction of Black Mountain Tower in Canberra.

Within the next year, Thompson wrote extensively for Rolling Stone while covering the election campaigns of President Richard Nixon and his unsuccessful opponent, Senator George McGovern.