Sentence examples for an unexpected election from inspiring English sources

That is fully reciprocated among those Outers who already plot to depose the man who won them an unexpected election victory just a year ago.

The recent death of a veteran state legislator from Houston has set the stage for an unexpected election that includes two members of a growing demographic in Texas, the progressive Latina woman.

The announcement made on state TV on Friday throws the future of the West African country into doubt after an unexpected election result that ended Jammeh's 22-year rule and was widely seen as a moment of democratic hope.

Mark Garnier, Conservative MP for Wyre Forest, accepted that the Australian had done an "extraordinarily good job" in guiding the Conservatives to an unexpected election triumph in May but said he sympathised with those criticising the decision to award him in the New Year's Honours List.

The News Corporation boss, who was appearing before Lord Justice Leveson in London on Wednesday, said it was likely he reprimanded the Sun's editor at the time, Kelvin MacKenzie, for publishing the headline on 11 April 1992, the day the Conservative leader John Major won an unexpected election victory over Labour.

"In the rush to cash in on an unexpected election victory, the Trump campaign began raising and misreporting millions of dollars in campaign contributions more than two months before Trump was even sworn into office," Common Cause vice president Paul Ryan said in a statement.

FOR many Sri Lankans the most remarkable feature of Maithripala Sirisena's four-day trip to India this week, his first as president after a stunningly unexpected election victory in January, was that he took a commercial flight.

But these are problems to come, and this was a day for the Tories to celebrate a remarkable and unexpected election victory.

The temptation for the Conservative party, still a little giddy from its unexpected election victory, is to caricature Corbyn as an unreconstructed cold warrior, a lost soul from another era.

The unexpected election of a single-party government means there is a stronger emphasis on keeping manifesto promises than there would have been under a coalition, which would have allowed more room for alteration, says Prof Malcolm Chalmers, research director of the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi).

Mr Sirisena's remarks, however, are another sign of a changed emphasis since his unexpected election victory over the more nationalistic former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, in January, reports the BBC's Charles Haviland.