Sentence examples for bleak election from inspiring English sources

Still, Mr. Bayh's exit darkens what already was a bleak election map for Senate Democrats.

It's not much, but in an otherwise bleak election season, it's something.

IN THE immediate aftermath of another bleak election result for the Tories, Michael Howard, the Conservative Party leader, signalled that he would do his party one last, important service.

Democrats seized the governor's office of four industrial battleground states on Tuesday and held onto California, providing some of the few encouraging signs in an otherwise bleak election season for the party.

In a bleak election for the nation's Democrats, one ray of hope was the Congressional campaign of Timothy H. Bishop, a political neophyte from Southampton who was holding a 2,421-vote 2,421-vote over Representative FeleadJ. Grucci Jr. in unofficial retoday.

A day removed from what was a relatively bleak election night special, Stephen Colbert was back on firmer ground on a live edition of "The Late Show".

With Democrats facing an increasingly bleak midterm election season, Mr. Obama used a speech at a union gathering on Labor Day, the traditional start of the campaign season, to outline his plan.

Research In Motion had a bleak post-election moment when it became clear that the fast texting President-elect Barack Obama will likely have to jettison his BlackBerry when he assumes office in January.

The news that two senior Democratic senators will retire this year in the face of bleak re-election prospects has created anxiety and, even in this bluest of states, a sense that the balance of power has shifted dramatically from just a year ago.

The director, 52, from Nebraska, made his 2011 hit The Descendants, starring George Clooney, following the critical success of the bleak comedies Sideways and Election.

Yet listen to the defeatists, who speak of geopolitical and economic realities, and there is a bleak inevitability about the election of Sepp Blatter, football's most powerful man, to a fifth term as Fifa president.