Sentence examples for catch the election from inspiring English sources

But it comes with a catch: the election won by the candidate, Viktor F. Yanukovich, was highly competitive, unpredictable and relatively fair — just the kind of major contest that has not been held in Russia since Mr. Putin, the prime minister, consolidated power.

More blacks in leadership positions would be the best thing it could do to catch the A.N.C. in the next election.

In the last two, double dissolutions were used to call an early election and catch the opposition off-guard.

The bottom line is he got caught stealing the election, a court threw out the results, and Viktor Yushchenko won the new election that the court ordered.

Rare and outrageous election issues often catch the media's attention.

Was there a deal struck or has the reaction from the Iranians over the election caught the regime off guard and scared them enough of what could ensue that they are giving the revolutionaries against Ahmadinejad their days to vent?

Well yes … "This snap election caught the opposition with its pants down".

There is no way a presidential candidate is going hand their BFF the keys to the campaign, the lion's share of the money, and then say, "Now, we have to avoid each other until November of 2016, but let's catch up after the election is over, because I'll want to hear about the things you did for my campaign".

But Mr. Daley's Sept. 7 announcement that he will not run for re-election caught the city by surprise and set off discussions throughout Chicago's Balkanized neighborhoods about who and what should come next.

But in 2006, as he was running for re-election, he caught the attention of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a liberal-leaning watchdog group that had made Mr. DeLay its top target.

He was caught only after the election of a reformist president, Boris Tadic, who set about rooting out ultra-nationalists from the intelligence and security forces.