Sentence examples for before balloting from inspiring English sources

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

His principal tactic was a public proposal that the Convention adopt a rule requiring all Presidential candidates to announce their Vice-Presidential choices before balloting for the Presidential nomination.

In South Korea, where voters often have not even heard of their district's candidates until the parties designate them a few weeks before balloting day, they often cast their votes not for the candidates but for the parties — or for their favorite future presidential candidate's party.

So-called quickie elections are the norm in Canada, which generally provides only a five-day window before balloting.

The upside for MF to delay: if MF refuses to do a deal before balloting closes, they get to tell SAG members "don't change horses in mid-stream, stay the course".

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

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

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

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".