Sentence examples for an expensive election from inspiring English sources

It could force an expensive election referendum.

Working as a secretary to his grandfather, now an ordinary citizen, he built up a wide network of contacts that will bolster his campaign, although it is unclear if he will be able to bankroll a serious bid in what is likely to be an expensive election.

WASHINGTON -- Chicago voters re-elected Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a runoff race on April 7, the culmination of an expensive election campaign.

Supporters of two Colorado ballot measures that would have curbed fracking in the state announced late Monday they were standing down, averting an expensive election-year fight that was creating uncertainty in both the governor's and Senate races.

That's been a very expensive election but at least no incumbent Democrat now has an excuse for coasting or presuming deliverance by registration.

But this 194-page bill came larded with, among other things, a new chapter of the Illinois Incumbent Protection Act and a new, expensive election bureaucracy that will be foisted on the taxpayers of Lake County.

"We just came off of a very expensive election.

Mr. Filner's resignation would end his eight-month tenure as the city's first elected Democratic mayor in more than 20 years and force a new and expensive election to pick a replacement.

He also said that Ms. Murkowski, by running as a write-in candidate after losing to him in the Republican primary in August, "single-handedly sentenced the state to a divisive and expensive election".

Mr. James, who had never lost a race in his 32-year political career, won with 53percentt of the vote to Mr. Booker's 47 percent after a bitter contest in the most expensive election Newark has seen.

Some said that they disagreed with Ms. Giron's gun votes, but that they were even more against an expensive special election to recall her.