Sentence examples for approach of election from inspiring English sources

Ms. Cox said she constantly encountered officials from other states who were growing more and more nervous with the approach of Election Day.

Once one of Africa's most promising and prosperous countries, Zimbabwe is now racked with food shortages and surging unemployment, and an increasingly authoritarian government seems more and more willing to crack down on its critics at the approach of election day, which is expected early next year.

Many analysts doubt that such cuts are possible given Argentina's complex politics and the approach of elections in October.

"My level of political activity usually doesn't mirror society's, where there is a rise in activity at the approach of elections and then it tapers off.

Politics, trained on the jugular in oil-rich Nigeria, is likely to yield more fights with the approach of elections early next year.

The United Nations special envoy to Afghanistan, Jean Arnault, called on NATO to send more troops to Afghanistan, saying that security remains a critical issue with the approach of elections in September.

"The Union budget will be an important gauge of the government's commitment to fiscal consolidation and reform in general," said a report by Fitch Ratings on Feb. 4. "India's patchy performance on policy implementation, and the approach of elections in 2014 could impede fiscal consolidation, suggesting political and implementation risk remain significant".

He suggested that oil traders, seeing the approach of an election, might dismiss any action as a political ploy rather than a commitment to reverse oil prices.

But the passage of time and the approach of the election plainly are making it more difficult, as a grilling Monday of Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, showed.

And they still hope to push through the corporate tax measure, which now contains a tobacco bailout important to Southern growers, as political pressure mounts with the approach of the election.

It is that the approach of the election, combined with the poisonous mutual dislike of the two main parties' leaderships, has (already) produced an unusually vicious and overheated political atmosphere.