Sentence examples for election a fight from inspiring English sources

Two months before the election, a fight broke out among Mr Putin's men, resulting in the arrest of a general from a drugs-fighting agency accused of tapping the phones of the Federal Security Service FSBB).

The night before the election, a fight in the department of Suchitepequez between LIDER supporters and backers of the UNE party left one person dead and four injured, and led to 25 arrests.

Instead, they nominated Indiana's far more conservative treasurer, Mr. Mourdock, turning the general election into a fight.

The reversal seems likely to redound into the next election cycle — a fight very much worth having.

He characterized this year's presidential election as a fight to reclaim the country for the working class.

The opposition harps on AK's Islamist roots and portrays the election as a fight between secularism and political Islam.

In his speech, Mr. Obama scored Mr. McCain for raising questions about his patriotism, and trying, he said, to turn a big election into a fight on small squabbles.

And he predicted the next election would be a fight against "disillusionment and despair".

The next election would be a fight against "disillusionment and despair", he predicted.

His voting record and recent tilt against coal had made re-election a tough fight.

With elections looming, picking a fight with the powerful whisky industry is not top of many political agendas.