Sentence examples for be allowed to contest from inspiring English sources

Candidates in December's local elections will be allowed to contest the seats only as independents, not on a party basis.

Mr. Ai's wife, Lu Qing, said he would post a guarantee of half the tax bill to be allowed to contest the order to pay it.

Free and fair elections under the supervision of international monitors must be held before the end of the year, and Nasheed must be allowed to contest those elections.

Dissenting in Hayden v. Pataki (2006), she also used conservative means to come to a liberal conclusion, determining, by a literal reading of the Voting Rights Act, that felons should be allowed to contest their disenfranchisement.

An early pledge that I will be allowed to contest the-one-member-one vote ballot for the Labour nomination would pull the rug from under Jeffrey Archer and unite the London Labour Party.

Significantly the ruling means Anwar will not be allowed to contest the next election in 2018, which the opposition saw as their best chance to unseat prime minister Najib Razak and end his ruling party's six decades in power.

In three incarnations, his party has won every election it has been allowed to contest.

She brought her party into elections, even though she was allowed to contest only a fraction of the parliamentary seats.

In the June 1989 vote, Solidarity won overwhelmingly in the districts it was allowed to contest and, after parliamentary maneuvering with minor parties, was able to form a government.

The official line from the government is that Laos is a one-party democracy -- only members of the Communist Lao People's Revolutionary Party are allowed to contest elections.

Mainstream Islamist parties have consistently polled poorly in all general elections that major secular parties have been allowed to contest unmolested.