Sentence examples for elected against from inspiring English sources

Landsman, a perpetual pessimist, had elected against rolling the dice.

Syriza was elected against a backdrop of anti-European austerity measures.

America's new president will be elected against the backdrop of a shrinking economy and on taking office will face months of economic malaise.

"What this does is to create a bitterness among people who get elected, against the party itself, and not just the guy who runs against you".

But had Mitt Romney been elected against the backdrop of charges of minority voter suppression, the argument for removing one of the few protections against discrimination in voting would have been a nonstarter.

Although it took three rounds of voting by Parliament, Mrs. Merkel succeeded in getting Mr. Wulff elected against Joachim Gauck, a Protestant pastor and former human rights activist in East Germany.

Mrs. Merkel may well be calculating that if Sarkozy is re-elected against the odds, he will owe her a big debt of gratitude, while if Mr. Hollande wins, he will have no choice but to court her for a share in European leadership.

See articleHaving changed the constitution to let himself have a third term, Algeria's ailing 72-year-old president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, was re-elected against sparse opposition with more than 90% of votes cast in a high official turnout of 74%, which opposition parties said was a threefold exaggeration.Pirates off the coast of Somalia seized more ships.

After independence, he was re-elected against largely token opponents in 1999, 2005, 2011 and - most recently - in 2015.

Khamenei also declared that the reformists had created a "dual state" -- the elected part against unelected organs -- but that Ahmadinejad's election had unified the state again.

But Councilwoman Carolyn A. Zenk, also recently elected, voted against the appointments.