Sentence examples for control elections from inspiring English sources

Between 1880 and 1895 the city experienced a huge rise in corruption, as crime bosses, such as Soapy Smith, worked side by side with elected officials and the police to control elections, gambling, and the bunko gangs.

She added: "Facebook would never try to control elections".

The army is needed to secure and control elections and Jonathan is lining his people up".

Possibly only Italy could compare with Britain for lax media ownership regulation, where Berlusconi is about to prove yet again this week that he who controls most of TV and newspapers can control elections.

Low turnout figures were in the interests of powerful noble magnates since they made it easier for them to control elections, but the long-term result was to hollow out the democratic consensus and undermine national strength, ultimately contributing to Poland's partition.

Fundamentally, he questioned whether the court had jurisdiction for the appeal of an election contest, an argument the justices seemed to take seriously, perhaps in light of the opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week that indicated the power to control elections rests in the state Legislature.

But on the other, their funds are more difficult to trace, and many are operating outside the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance act, which sought to control election spending by banning unlimited contributions to the parties.

President Jimmy Carter promised to fix the campaign finance landscape after the Supreme Court's historic 1976 Buckley v. Valeo ruling limited what the government could do to control election spending.

17, 1988 Leslie F. Manigat, a university professor, is elected President in army-controlled elections.

The council controls elections.

In 1996, a Kremlin-backed candidate, Doku Zavgayev, won by a landslide in tightly controlled elections that many said made him illegitimate.