Sentence examples for Mandated election from inspiring English sources

And if Marja is a town, then it needs to hold a constitutionally mandated election to choose a mayor, and not face a governor forced upon it by Kabul.

In response, President Kenyatta's Jubilee Party has petitioned the Supreme Court to issue a contempt of court citation to Odinga for trying to compromise a constitutionally mandated election, and pushed legislation through Parliament that it hopes will tip the scales in its favor.

The bishops brokered a deal in December to prod Mr. Kabila to step down after he refused to hold constitutionally mandated elections last year.

The DRC president, Joseph Kabila, who took over from his father, Laurent Kabila, in 2001 after he was assassinated by his own bodyguards, refused to hold constitutionally mandated elections last year.

In related proceedings on September 30, 2008, Judge Smith of The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in Columbus had granted an Ohio Republican Party request for a restraining order that would mandate election observers during early voting.

In reality, the primary political lessons of Reagan's presidency are (1) beat a weak incumbent in what is perceived to be a "mandate" election and (2) hope economic growth rebounds in the two years before your re-election.

Even though bills to mandate Election Day registration were introduced in Congress with Republican co-sponsors -- such bipartisanship on voting rights would be astonishing today -- the legislation was abandoned when it ran into roadblocks thrown up by conservatives like Ronald Reagan.

But in a choice between more elections to replace a mayor or 15 months of an interim mayor with no mandate, elections are better.

The junta held a referendum in May on a new constitution that mandates elections in 2010 and a central role for the military in future governments.

No matter that both Mr. Chirac and his predecessor, François Mitterrand, had worse poll results than Mr. Sarkozy, and even more obvious political setbacks, each losing his parliamentary majority in mid-mandate elections.

Both were widely perceived as mandate elections and were accompanied by significant gains in Congress for their parties.