Sentence examples for be elected against from inspiring English sources

America's new president will be elected against the backdrop of a shrinking economy and on taking office will face months of economic malaise.

A Court that has nine judges who owe their careers to one party and who have been elected for 12-year terms can make it difficult for any non-Fidesz government to govern, even if a new government could be elected against the background of an ever-changing landscape of new electoral barriers that the opposition has to hurdle.

He would be elected against anyone by a landslide.

Syriza was elected against a backdrop of anti-European austerity measures.

But had Mitt Romney been elected against the backdrop of charges of minority voter suppression, the argument for removing one of the few protections against discrimination in voting would have been a nonstarter.

Even if he turns out to be an average president, Obama will be remembered worldwide hundreds of years from now as a man who changed the way the world looked and thought, simply by being elected against a set of seemingly insurmountable odds that had statistically and historically been stacked against him.

Scott Brown was elected against all odds not just because of health care, and not simply because Martha Coakley ran a complacent and foolish campaign, but because the American public has for thirty years been voting with vigor and virulence against... the American public.

(In retrospect, Kathleen Brown, a very promising but unseasoned figure, should have waited until 1998, when she would almost certainly have been elected against far right Attorney General Dan Lungren. She would have gained needed experience, developed a strong team of her own, and avoided running against an incumbent governor, which is almost never a good idea).

It must, though, give hope to Ed Miliband that Labour could be elected even against the backdrop of a "strong" economy.

"It will no longer be possible for governments to be elected and pursue policies against the wishes of the Scottish people … Independence will put the people of Scotland in charge of our destiny".

Gian Guido Vecchi, a journalist who covers the Vatican, said last week in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, "Even if this won't be the time for the first American pope, it's difficult to imagine that the pope can be elected without, or even against, them".