Sentence examples for election a position from inspiring English sources
When he announced that he was running for president in the 2013 election, a position he was elected to twice already, he was disqualified for two reasons.
Shinzo Abe will be back at the head of government.In a crushing defeat for the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), NHK, the national broadcaster, reported results showing the LDP had easily secured a majority in the lower-house election, a position it had held for more than half a century until 2009.
Peter Galbraith, the deputy UN special envoy responsible for electoral matters, was removed after a dispute with his Norwegian boss, Kai Eide, after Galbraith had taken an outspoken line over alleged vote-rigging in the 20 August election, a position that reportedly angered Karzai.
There is, however, a far more basic reason why senators should press Kagan on so fundamental a question as whether there are any longer any limits on governments power power, for example, to ban books published by corporations if those books advocate the election of a candidate for federal office 60 days before an election, a position she recently took as solicitor general.
The party became the second largest party in Norway for the first time in the 1997 parliamentary election, a position it also held following the elections in 2005 and 2009.
I defiantly refused to vote for any major party candidates in that election (a position I still hold to with some firmness), instead casting ballots for Ross Perot as president and an assortment of fringe candidates in the local elections.
And while Laguna Beach resident Kashkari holds some moderate positions on social issues — which loyalists have suggested would broaden his appeal — he was forced to move to the right to secure a spot in the general election, a positioning likely to hurt him in November.
A tough-talking, no-nonsense politician, he played a major part in the DUP's rise to becoming Northern Ireland's largest political party in the 2003 Assembly Election - a position it has not relinquished since.
The Lib Dem leader, Tim Farron, has told delegates he believes Theresa May should be forced to put the details of any Brexit deal to the public, either in a second referendum or a general election - a position ratified in a vote on the conference floor.
In 2017, the ruling Conservatives called a surprise election from a position of apparently unquestionable dominance, 24 points ahead in the polls.
Correction: December 14, 2000, Thursday An article on Nov. 27 about the Romanian presidential election misstated a position held by one candidate, Corneliu Vadim Tudor, on a territorial issue.
