Sentence examples for before electoral from inspiring English sources

Before electoral reforms in 1993 abolished Japan's multi-seat constituencies, LDP politicians could secure a seat with 15% or less of the popular vote.

But competing bills introduced this week, one by Republicans and another by Democrats, show small but consequential steps on immigration that leaders on both sides think they might accomplish in coming months, before electoral politics overwhelm the debate.

In addition, the empirical analysis seems to refute Sartori's argument that party systems must be structured before electoral systems can mature.

Before electoral accountability for misconduct can occur, the wrongdoing by representatives must be exposed.

One implication, which Mr Douthat does not draw, is that Mr Roberts has, by depriving Republicans of wiggle room with blacks, made the passage of immigration reform more urgently necessary for the future viability of the GOP.However, as I've noted before, the electoral interests of individual Republican congressmen can easily diverge from the long-term electoral interests of the Republican Party.

It hardly has time to recover before another electoral test comes knocking in June.

But before the electoral assembly can be called, the two chambers must have speakers.

Before the electoral votes were tallied, however, Greeley was institutionalized (perhaps as a result of the intensity of the attacks he had sustained and his loss of control over his newspaper), and he died before the electoral votes were cast.

On Jan . 20 , 1877a few days before the electoral votes were to be tabulated, the Electoral Commission Law was signed by President Grant.

Recently, monitors from the Organization of American States pulled out of Peru before the electoral runoff because the campaign had been so orchestrated.

But it was followed by a nerve-racking delay of nearly three weeks before the electoral commission at last released provisional results on October 18th.