Sentence examples for county machine from inspiring English sources

His county machine is as fallow as the autumnal prairie land that glows burnished and waiting.

"During our campaign, we warned of county machine influences on Leonia politics and the good-old-boy network," she said.

The county is one of the wealthiest in the nation, but decades of mismanagement, particularly by the Republican county machine, allowed an unhealthy diet of generous patronage, labor contracts and services without providing money to pay for them.

But a failure to heal the rift could hurt the county machine's invaluable ability to produce the big Hudson County turnout that the Democrats need to win statewide races.

The primary has turned into a struggle for supremacy between New Jersey's vaunted but recently enervated county machines and the Republican Party's little-known but newly emboldened conservative wing.

"Certainly the fiefdoms of the county leaders, most of whom went to prison for corruption in the history of New York City, were financed through the Board of Estimate's use of financial largess, which was then passed down through the patronage system and the loyalty system to those who served the county machines.

Ten thousand ballots in Palm Beach County the machine did not read as including a vote for president.

In the old Cook County Democratic machine, ward and township committeemen dispensed patronage, locking up public payroll spots for loyal campaign workers.

They could take on the Cook County Democratic Party machine that has protected murderers in uniform and concealed the legalised lynching of black citizens.

In an entirely new concept, the Gaston County jet machine circulates fabric in rope form through a pipe by means of a high-pressure jet of dye liquor.

Initially, secession was dismissed as a sport for rich Republicans, invented to assault a county patronage machine they believe to be operated by Democrats.