Sentence examples for election and provided from inspiring English sources

Obama's selection last summer of the Republican congressman John McHugh to be his Secretary of the Army created the need for a special election, and provided the first opportunity for Tea Party activists to make an electoral impact both locally and nationally.

This conveniently promoted the Liberal party's harsh border protection policy in the lead up to an election, and provided a pretext for our increasingly rthless policy of detaining refugees in offshore camps.

Neighbors complained that during a debate over expansion of the large Playa Vista development in Westchester several years ago, the developer dispatched construction workers to a neighborhood council election -- and provided them with beer and chicken wings as a reward.

It's called a general election and provides the only mainstream political chance we have to unravel this mess before it becomes an endless nightmare.

The DPP is a powerful player in Danish politics at the moment: While not a part of government, it became the second-largest party in Denmark after the election and provides key support to the Liberal Party.

Specifically, it mentioned a case in which a supporter of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was charged with 13 counts of election fraud, including "registering to vote in more than one place, voting where he didn't live, voting more than once in the same election, and providing false information to election officials," according to an account by Talking Points Memo.

Section 9(d) of the bill makes clear that there is to be no court review prior to the holding of the election, and provides an exclusive, complete, and adequate remedy whenever an order of the Board made pursuant to section 10(c) is based in whole or in part upon facts certified following an election or other investigation pursuant to section 9(c).

The proposed changes include implementing early voting in every New York county at least 12 days before the election and providing one polling site for every 50,000 residents.

Since the 1970s, they have been a peaceful political organization that has regularly participated in elections and provided social services.

A spokesman for the campaign said that Mr. Sproul collected petition signatures during the Republican primary elections and provided office space.

In the other paper [7], Gayo-Avello analyzed in detail the reasons for failing to predict the results of the 2008 US elections and provided several lessons that can be learned from this research.