Sentence examples for a significant election from inspiring English sources

Mr. Spitzer, they point out, never faced a significant election fight after he first won office in 1998.

The PRI, which governed Mexico from 1929 onward, has not won a significant election since it was defeated by President Vicente Fox in July 2000.

In a news release Martin E. Sullivan, director of the National Portrait Gallery, said the Obama poster was "an emblem of a significant election, as well as a new presidency".

Ms. Sigurdardottir is notable, too, for being the first openly declared lesbian to lead a government in the modern world, though her sexual orientation was never a significant election issue.

In many ways this is a significant election for India: after 10 years in office, the incumbent Congress is facing a rout and the frontrunner is the opposition BJP, though its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, is not exactly everyone's favourite man.

Asylum is set to be a significant election issue, after a sharp rise in the number of people arriving by boat in recent months.

Talking about Argentina, Mauricio Macri has recently had a pretty significant election victory in the Buenos Aires mayoral election, and he's said he'll run in 2015... Which he said last time.

This was, in the context of New York's history, an unusually significant election even before the attack on Sept. 11.

The ship's sinking was an especially significant election issue there, because the ship went down in waters in Incheon's jurisdiction.

Nyanza was the site of significant election violence around the time of the 2007 general election [ 15].

WASHINGTON — Members of a House-Senate committee charged with writing a measure to extend a payroll tax reduction and provide added unemployment benefits reached a tentative agreement Tuesday evening, with Republicans and Democrats claiming a degree of political victory in a fight with significant election-year implications.