Sentence examples for delegate support from inspiring English sources

He helped pave the path for state primaries -- not party bosses -- to dictate delegate support.

Mr. Huckabee won with 34.4percentt of the delegate support, after 86percentt of precincts had reported.

Their level of delegate support is minimal at this point, and their candidacies appear to be little more than nuisances for Mr. Romney.

Rove and his chief assistant, Lee Atwater, later another famous hardball-playing Republican strategist, drove across the South lining up delegate support.

Mr. Toussaint has asked the United States Department of Labor to investigate the election, asserting that the union undercounted the delegate support for him.

But except for a 1993 bill that lowered the threshold of required delegate support from 20percentto15percentceno, no major reform has taken place.

A fundamental question about the endgame of the Democratic primaries is this: If and when Hillary Clinton finishes with more pledged delegates and popular votes, and wins the nomination with super-delegate support, will Bernie Sanders do what is necessary to persuade his supporters that the outcome was legitimate?

I.O.C. delegates "support nationalism and they support the ruling elites of the various nations of the world, no matter if they are Communist or capitalist".

Stephen A. Douglas received a majority of the delegates' support but could not amass the required two-thirds majority needed for nomination), Democrats held a second convention in Baltimore, Md., on June 18 23, though many of the Southern delegates failed to attend.

That would presumably mean discarding the state G.O.P.'s frustrating practice of showing delegates' names in large type, with the names of the presidential candidates those delegates support listed in tiny type below.

In his earlier decision, the judge suspended the state law preventing political candidates for statewide office and Congressional seats from appearing on a party's primary ballot unless at least 15percentt of the party's delegates support them.