Sentence examples for decent election from inspiring English sources

How do you salvage a decent election result?

Unless security improves, it will be impossible to hold a decent election, as the agreement stipulates.

But we also need some sort of international standard about what constitutes a decent election".

AFTER a decent election last year, Mauritania was held up as a fine new democracy for Africa.

To many observers, it seemed ludicrous that a country as advanced and as wealthy as the United States can't figure out how to hold a decent election.

But Corbyn's ability to run a decent election campaign cannot be taken as a sign he would make a competent premier.

"We want real, free and decent elections.

More African leaders in the past decade or so have sincerely striven for better governance, including decent elections.

This, in short, is the result of December's presidential election in Belarus, in which Alyaksandr Lukashenka, a Soviet thug, declared himself the winner with an improbable 80% of the poll and returned to govern for a fourth time.European leaders, who had promised Mr Lukashenka cash as a reward for decent elections, seemed caught by surprise.

And since Iran is the only country to contemplate combining a strict Islamist regime with democratic practices, the election may provide a clue as to how compatible the two can be.The Islamic republic holds reasonably decent elections, proving at least that a theocratic state and a free popular vote can go together.

A grenade attack on one of its rallies, in August 2004, nearly killed Sheikh Hasina and left other senior leaders dead or injured; it has not been properly investigated.It is unclear whether an effective interim government can be formed or decent elections held always assuming there is no army coup.