Sentence examples for balanced election from inspiring English sources

With an estimated 62.5 million people watching on television, according to Nielsen Media Research (more than 30% higher than the TV audience for the first Bush-Gore debate in 2000), there is no escaping the level of public interest in the face-to-face confrontation as part of the bigger picture in a crucial and evenly balanced election.

And, we can add to that trust by enacting fair and balanced election and campaign reforms.

The intensifying debate over prewar American intelligence about Iraq presents President Bush with difficult and risky alternatives as he balances election year politics with calls to overhaul the intelligence apparatus and to restore the nation's credibility around the world.

Still, Turkey's experience with building political parties and institutions, checks and balances, election monitoring groups and a state system that did not dominate or crush the market "may contain some lessons for others," Mr. Ulgen said.

Mr. Gore obviously calculated that anti-Semitism was not a major political factor, or at least would be balanced in the election by what he saw as Mr. Lieberman's strengths.

The bond issue allowed Mrs. Whitman to balance her election-year budget by drastically cutting the state's required contribution to the pension funds.

It has been an election campaign balanced on a knife edge and nobody can confidently say what the outcome will be.

With the election so finely balanced, both sides are mobilising enormous efforts to tip the balance.

Such information might very well be crucial in a general election as delicately balanced as next May's.

Somalia's transitional government, created four years ago (with Mr. Yusuf at the helm) as a temporary solution until Somalia could hold elections, is carefully balanced on a formula that divides power among Somalia's four major clans.

Whether or not the nation's destiny hung in the balance, the election involved plenty of mudslinging, backstabbing, and chicanery, though you might call it democracy.