Sentence examples for confirmed the election from inspiring English sources

He says he was told by Brown's campaign team that a meeting at Chequers the Sunday after the Labour conference had confirmed the election would go ahead.

Partial election results released on July 14 by the General Election Committee (GEC) confirmed the election of 66 candidates (the MPRP, 39; the DP, 25; the Civil Will Party, 1; and Independents, 1).

Since the Supreme Court decided to hear the case on Nov. 24, the results of the disputed Florida recount confirmed the election night tally, albeit by a closer margin, with Texas Gov. George W. Bush George W. Bush the winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes.

It was at Canterbury that papal assent to Geoffrey's election was secured in December, when Giovanni d'Anagni, the papal legate, not only confirmed the election, but rejected the various appeals made by the cathedral chapter against Geoffrey.

He then confirmed the elections would probably be held in September.

The monks then proceeded to elect Silvester as the new abbot, but Theobald refused to confirm the election, accusing Silvester of buying the office.

The stakes have now been raised by the decision of the Episcopal convention in Minneapolis to confirm the election of Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire.

In 2003 Jefferts Schori was one of the bishops who voted to confirm the election of the Rev. V. Gene Robinson as bishop of the diocese of New Hampshire the first openly gay man to be elected an Anglican bishop.

The elderly president, in hospital with complications after a stomach operation, was too ill to confirm the election date before the constitutional deadline to do so had passed on November 20th.

Anyone who followed the church's convention a week ago, and the struggle there over confirming the election of a gay bishop openly living with his male partner, might say yes.

In an open letter to the council, which is charged with confirming the election results, Karroubi urged its members to "accept the will of the nation" and throw out results announced by the Interior Ministry showing a landslide win for Ahmadinejad.