Sentence examples for allowed election from inspiring English sources
Freedom has been curtailed - no opposition political parties allowed; election due in Aug. was put off a year; censorship, public-morality laws.
His decision allowed election officials in Palm Beach and Volusia Counties to continue with the hand recounts that were requested last week by the Democrats.
But political commentators quickly criticized Mr. Brown, saying he had allowed election fever to run out of control and then become unnerved by opinion surveys in the last two days that indicated that the Labor Party may have lost ground to the Conservatives, who are led by David Cameron.
It urges councils, the national Electoral Management Board (EMB) and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla), to reassess their policies: In our report on the 2003 Scottish elections, we noted that not all councils allowed election posters to be placed on lampposts.
The military allowed elections to proceed and, on Monday, Egypt's first freely elected Parliament in six decades held its opening session.
AHMAD SALAH, after the police in Cairo allowed election-day protesters to chant antigovernment slogans.
In 1990, the military regime allowed elections, which the National League for Democracy overwhelmingly won.
The new ruling allowed elections to proceed while the state appealed the case.
He lost, allowed elections in 1989, which his friends lost, and in March 1990 handed the presidency on to the elected Patricio Aylwin.
Even if elections are seen as a step toward democracy, which few allowed, elections under occupation are not, said Emad Gad, an expert on international relations with the Ahram Center of Political and Strategic Studies, a government-financed research center in Cairo.
Sporadic fighting continues, although UN peacekeepers have managed to instil a semblance of order which allowed elections to be held in 2006.Western donors paid for the elections, which cost $460m, and have supported the resulting government with substantial handouts.
