Sentence examples for breakthrough election from inspiring English sources

"And Georgia saw yesterday the breakthrough election that most Southern states have seen at one time or another over the past 15 years".

Along the way, Mr. Blair, 59, sought to take some of the heat out of the furor surrounding Mr. Murdoch, saying that despite bestowing his British newspapers' backing on the Labour Party before Mr. Blair's breakthrough election in 1997, the media tycoon had never sought to lobby him on issues that affected the commercial success of the Murdoch properties in Britain.

What they're aiming for in 2016 is to reproduce the red-state legislative/executive trifecta in Washington: there's little chance the House will turn Democratic (the gerrymandering after the Tea Party breakthrough election of 2010 insures this for a good while longer).

But somehow, Mulcair is still in the job, despite halving his caucus and losing more than a million votes over the NDP's breakthrough 2011 election, even though he started the election leading the polls.

Her ascension, though nowhere near as momentous a breakthrough as the election of Obama or Clinton, would be a breakthrough all the same.

Abdullah, who spoke first at the news conference announcing the breakthrough, said the election created "serious challenges".

One can attribute the rise of the BNP to failings in the current system; but their European election breakthrough may have made the case for PR tougher too.

The election breakthrough for the leftist HDP, a new party largely representing the Kurds but also encompassing liberals nationally, was greeted with wild celebrations in the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir in south-eastern Turkey.

Nick Clegg told the Liberal Democrats they could make an historic breakthrough at the election – but only if they had the bravery to face up to dire economic problems facing Britain.

In the east Kent constituency, however, where Farage is currently leading the polls, the presence of Meacher and others reflects the scale of the Ukip drive to achieve a long sought-after general election breakthrough.

Tunisian-born, she led a successful campaign last year to win the release of her husband who was deported by the United States to Syria as a suspected terrorist.The NDP, under an energetic but garrulous new leader, Jack Layton, had hopes of a breakthrough in this election.