Sentence examples for a bellwether in from inspiring English sources

Politically, the state is a bellwether in presidential elections.

HCA, based in Nashville, is considered a bellwether in the hospital industry.

I.B.M., a bellwether in the corporate technology market, forecasts that it will have $7 billion in cloud revenue by 2015.

Missouri, a bellwether in every White House race in the last century except 1956, initially seemed safely in Republican hands.

Supporters of the measure said it would send a firm signal to Washington about how this state, often a bellwether in presidential elections, felt about such a law.

Howard Wolfson, a deputy in the Bloomberg administration who briefly led the mayor's new super PAC, called the Illinois race a bellwether in the national gun debate.

It has emerged as a bellwether issue in the elections approaching in April.

Crawley in West Sussex, a bellwether seat in the general election and also likely to be pretty evenly split at the referendum, is also due to declare, as is South Norfolk, where the split should also be telling.

"The biggest picture is what was best for Nevada, and we wanted to protect our position, our voters' opportunity to be the first in the West and to be a bellwether state in the cycle".

Many of these live elsewhere but have registered to vote in Lembah Pantai, and Nurul Izzah claims that hundreds of these are known BN voters, which could make a big difference in a tight race.Lembah Pantai is a bellwether seat in another way, offering a snapshot of Malaysia's ethnic diversity the characteristic that usually dictates how elections are won.

The election was called a referendum, a bellwether, and, in a Times headline, a "rebuke".