Sentence examples for ancient election from inspiring English sources

While that contretemps already seems like ancient election history -- our 24-second news cycle having already absorbed, in its amoeba-like fashion, New Hampshire flyers, Somali fashion statements, fairy tales, Lyndon Johnson and Jessie Jackson -- I want to return to the subject because the Philharmonic's appearance has vivified the issue.

Here is the chance to discover what "to spill the beans" has to do with ancient Greek elections and what "Dutch treat" has to do with "Dutch uncle".

HOW TO WIN AN ELECTION: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians, by Quintus Tullius Cicero.

Mary Beard on a new translation of Quintus Tullius Cicero's "How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians," in which Quintus advises his more famous brother, Marcus, on how to run a Roman election campaign.

But in this General Election the ancient fears and passions of Northern Ireland are echoed in paler colours in the rest of the UK.

The cantonal constitution of 1848, which put an end to the ancient Landsgemeinde (open-air elections of the canton, with voting by show of hands), was revised in 1876 and 1898.

When teaching about citizenship and elections in ancient Athens or in the Roman republic, my students – African American, Hispanic and Asian, and many not born in the US – quickly realize that none of us would have been able to vote.

This factionalism already seems incredibly outdated, and by the next election will be ancient history.

In his scruffy voice, with his intellectual bent (he was comparing Ms Whitman to the ancient Athenian statesman Aristides on election day), he came across as unscripted and spontaneous.

"Belarussian elections are like ancient theater," the correspondent for Russia's government-owned First Channel, said in a recent report.

In ancient Iran, after an interregnum, the election of the king took place through an omen.