Sentence examples for before election to from inspiring English sources

He started work as an NHS microbiologist in 1966, and in the mid-1970s took up an appointment at the Royal Oldham hospital, where he worked for 22 years before election to parliament.

However, it's not all modest self-mockery: shortly before election to his current post, Hollande claimed he spoke English "more fluently than the former president" (it was true: Nicolas Sarkozy belongs to the Clouseau school of English pronunciation).

On October 13, 1858, Quincy's Washington Park (originally John's Square) was the site of the sixth of the Lincoln-Douglas debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas; before election to the U.S. Senate, Douglas represented the city in the U.S. House of Representatives.

He was the youngest person to ever serve in either of those offices, and served two terms as governor before election to the United States Senate.

Party elders, fearful of upsetting voters, do not want the problems that lurk in the banks exposed before elections to the upper house in July.

On one occasion he carelessly talked about raising consumption taxes before elections to the upper house in July, which could have lasting consequences.

And they have sent out a timely message, before elections to the European Parliament this June, that they can sometimes act as a useful check on Brussels after all.

Günther Verheugen, the union's commissioner for enlargement, said the first new members could join the 15-member body before elections to the European Parliament in June 2004.

Then, just before elections to choose a new RAS president in May, outgoing academy president Yuri Osipov and Kurchatov director Mikhail Kovalchuk wrote to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking him to transform the partnership into a separate body.

As a consequence, says Gabriel Lenz, a political scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, "governments increase spending and reduce taxes irresponsibly just before elections to boost their reelection chances, leading to long-term inflation and other problems". .

Russia had been pressing for constitutional reform in Ukraine to occur before elections to replace Yanukovich and his now-decimated Party of Regions.