Sentence examples for broad elections from inspiring English sources
By holding elections in 2007 for a chief executive who will serve a new five-year term, mainland officials have effectively pushed back until 2012 any broad elections for Hong Kong's leader.
PAGE A9 Setback for Chirac In the first broad elections since conservatives won power two years ago in France, voters expressed dissatisfaction by showing strong support for the left and far right.
At the very least, the Republicans' conservative base — demoralized by broad election losses last November — is rising in a chorus of outrage.
The current debate – the Coalition talking about the need for a "tough cop" to rein in the construction unions (the technical trigger for the double-dissolution poll) and Labor talking about the need for a royal commission into the banks – fits each party's broad election theme but these issues will inevitably fade in importance as the campaign proper takes hold.
He was backing serious efforts in campaign finance and broad election reform.
Conversely Brown still has a lot to do to build a broader, election-winning coalition.
The Balkan peacekeeping debate is part of a broader election-year dispute over the use of American power.
Supporters like Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, said the measure was a small but important step toward broader election-law overhaul.
People with disabilities should also benefit from broader election reforms designed to protect everyone's vote, such as the right to cast a provisional ballot and better-trained poll workers.
"My feeling was that Michael had the support of the small and influential group of party officials who were voting — these were special, last-minute circumstances — but that if it had been a broader election throughout the party, I'd have won".
"That was part of a broader election culture that was much more festive, more boisterous than the rather more humdrum ones we have now," said Dr Tom Crook, lecturer in modern British history at Oxford Brookes University.
