Sentence examples for a protracted election from inspiring English sources

The concession by Mr. Keita's opponent, Soumalia Cissé, allows Mali to avoid a protracted election fight and to move ahead with establishing a democratically elected government, one of the conditions international donors have set for the distribution of $4 billion in promised aid.

This was the year of two big developments in Iraq: the major reduction in American combat forces and a protracted election in which voting in March was followed by a nine-month delay in forming a new government.

Though the markets reacted with delight on Monday when it began to look like the government would fall, attention has since shifted to the prospect of a protracted election campaign, or lengthy negotiations to form a new coalition.

On the basis of this speech, it also seems that Mr Cameron and his party will be fighting a protracted election campaign on things they can agree on.He hardly mentioned environmentalism, gay rights and overseas aid past enthusiasms that got right up the party's nose.

The unrelenting onslaught and sheer breadth of scandal and conflict has left an American electorate fatigued and uncertain as to the best path of resistance following a protracted election season that may be the most volatile in history.

The Central Election Commission declared Viktor A. Yushchenko, the opposition leader, the official president-elect, bringing the protracted election closer to an end.

Faced with a renewal of the protracted election battle, the initial reaction of investors was negative.

Gravel was the last Democrat to represent Alaska in Congress for 28 years, until Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich defeated Stevens, by now an aged, iconic figure who had just been convicted of seven felonies for taking unreported gifts, in a very close and protracted election result in mid-November mid-November 2008

And Muhammad Tahir-ul Qadri, a charismatic preacher who led thousands of supporters into central Islamabad for a protracted sit-in last January, says he will help ensure the integrity of the election.

Senate Republicans control enough votes to filibuster the measure, and given the tense climate of a midterm election year, it is not clear that Senate Democrats will have the stomach for a protracted fight.

In permitting the inspection now under way by nearly a dozen Florida newspapers, The Associated Press and The New York Times, Ms. Harris reversed two earlier decisions in which her office first denied access to the computers and later agreed to permit an inspection of only two of the four computers that were used by aides in a "war room" outside her office during the protracted election.