Sentence examples for based on elections from inspiring English sources
"I think if democracy is firmly rooted, if it is based on elections, if people have the chance to elect leaders at regular intervals, I think that is what we need.
Fahd made it clear that he did not have democracy in mind: "A system based on elections is not consistent with our Islamic creed, which [approves of] government by consultation [shūrā]." After the Persian Gulf War, Saudi Arabia's Islamist opposition grew more influential.
Mr. Bosch, who is 61, said today that he was trying to persuade Dominicans that a formal democratic system based on elections would not solve the problems of this country of four million people, where unemployment is rife, more than 50percentnt of the population is illiterate, and per capita income is less than $280 a year.
The formal political institutions and procedures envisaged are largely familiar: representative assemblies based on elections and referenda.
Legally mandated union recognition procedures, based on elections in which workers must choose between offers from the union and threats issued by the employer, as in the USA and since 2000 in the UK, have done nothing to stop the erosion in bargaining coverage and union representation that results from this logic (Moore et al. 2014 .6.
Based on election results, some red states have become redder and some blue states bluer.
"The referendum process to date is broadly consistent with international standards for democratic elections," said the Carter Center of Atlanta, based on election monitoring.
Neil deGrasse Tyson argues that based on election polls taken in the previous six weeks, if the general election were held today, Hillary Rodham Clinton would have the best chance of defeating John McCain in November.
South Korea's ruling conservative party suffered an unexpected defeat in a parliamentary election on Wednesday, local media said early on Thursday, based on election commission data, in a stinging blow to president Park Geun-hye.
