Sentence examples for cumbersome election from inspiring English sources

Mr. Martin, a bona fide member of the working class who met his wife in a factory, was chosen in a cumbersome election in which 12 candidates were considered, two by two, late into Monday night.

While their prospects of winning union recognition through the cumbersome election process prescribed by federal law are slim, the workers have nevertheless demanded improvements in working conditions and are eager to use legal collective action to draw public attention to their concerns.

They are raising the spectre of imaginary voter fraud to further their efforts to disqualify a large number of those registrations through cumbersome requirements that elections boards cannot complete by November 4 to fix a problem that does not exist.

After the father of the Commons, 84-year-old Sir Edward Heath, had rejected pleas for a straightforward ballot to choose from the 12 contenders, it took more than six hours of cumbersome voting to complete the election as even no-hopers took their turn - to the dismay of Westminster modernisers.

Instead, they seem to have set upon a position slightly longer and more cumbersome than Michael Foot's 1983 Election Manifesto.

Led by Sieyès, one of the new directors, these "revisionists" wished to escape from the instability of the Directory regime, especially its tumultuous annual elections and its cumbersome separation of powers.

Votes can also be lost on the optical-scan systems, and election officials say it can be cumbersome to use them in large cities where ballots have to be printed in many languages.

Does the fact that seven justices clearly think states can get around the preemption problem by petitioning the Election Assistance Commission for waivers to add more cumbersome requirements for voter registration raise concerns?

Terrence C. O'Connor, a Queens Democrat who holds the rotating presidency of the 10-member city Board of Elections, conceded that the new device could be cumbersome.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani will need to navigate two large and cumbersome legal obstacles should he decide to seek a third term as mayor, election lawyers said yesterday.

But now, less than three years after the new machines were deployed, election officials say the counting process with the machines is too cumbersome to use them for the mayoral primary this year, and then for the runoff that seems increasingly likely to follow as soon as two weeks later.