Sentence examples for before ballot from inspiring English sources

A week before ballot papers are issued to Labour's electoral college of MPs, members and trade union supporters, it is easy to see what is going on.

If another 130,000 now have to be vetted in under two weeks before ballot papers go out, that puts intolerable strain on local parties.

As the Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri once said, "What is truly regrettable is the rallying of thousands of duped Muslim youth in voter queues before ballot boxes instead of lining them up to fight in the cause of Allah".

A flurry of polls released late on Friday – the last before ballot boxes open at 7am on Sunday – revealed Syriza to be narrowly ahead after late gains by Tsipras.

One of the reasons the commission dropped these proposals was, according to its chairman, Peter J. Powers, that they were too far-reaching and controversial to pursue in the remaining weeks before ballot proposals are due in early September.

Amid a frantic round of campaigning before ballot papers are sent out on Wednesday, The Observer was summoned to the chaotic basement study of the home in Holland Park, west London, of Benn Snr to witness the most famous father-son relationship in modern British politics.

The film also did not show well with major critics groups, in part because many voters had simply not seen it before balloting.

Two years before, a ballot measure was approved allowing independent voters to cast ballots in any party primary they choose.

This is the new math," said Jay Jacobs, the state Democratic Party chairman, as he explained the decision before balloting began.

Republican caucus rules in Iowa allow surrogates – as well as candidates – to make short speeches shortly before ballots are cast.

But little more than five weeks before balloting, the incumbent, Gerhard Schröder, is looking less like a certain loser.