Sentence examples for a previous election from inspiring English sources

Through one lens, the term was a fascinating report card of sorts on how the two elected branches of government behaved during a previous election year, 1996, when conservatives in Congress were in the ascendancy and Democrats were on the defensive on a range of issues bearing on crime, immigration and social policy.

There's the one where the Democrat whom Mr. Rogers defeated in a previous election offers her endorsement.

Both parties later began giving "bonus" votes to states carried by the party in a previous election.

If you have registered in a previous election, have not changed name or address, and plan to voteyou do not need to register again.

Federal Election Commission law allows candidates to transfer funds from a previous election committee to a new one, or allows them to repurpose the first one.

The rule the S.E.C. proposed would allow institutional investors to nominate one or more director candidates to run on the company's own ballot if at least 35percentt of the votes were withheld from a candidate in a previous election.

That's what we've learned about New Hampshire from a few previous election cycles – the state's voters love a surprise delivery or two.

The forcefulness with which Clinton has campaigned on gun laws – not simply to draw a contrast with Republicans but also primary opponent Bernie Sanders – has marked a departure from previous election cycles in which Democrats typically shied away from discussing the issue.

In a clear reversal of previous election cycles, a Bloomberg poll last month indicated that 71 percent of Iowa Republicans polled viewed fiscal concerns as the predominant issue.

The pattern is a departure from previous election cycles, when the candidates' campaign organizations paid for the majority of their commercials and spent far more money than the parties, the researchers say.

In the case of the Liberals (who had to apply because they had formed part of a coalition in the previous election), the council checked only a few of their signatures against the electoral roll.