Sentence examples for election by default from inspiring English sources

But it's a bit like the government: the BBC can lose an election by default.

With nothing left to try, he has ditched hope and change and is hoping to win the 2012 election "by default".

Labour might yet win the most seats at the next election by default, thanks to rotten boroughs in Scotland and the north.

Allowing election by default arguably places the PEC's decision as to the eligibility of the candidates above the electorate's choice.

Mr. Mugabe claimed re-election by default, but few recognized his rule as legitimate.

"The incumbent has many advantages," Mr. Horowitz said, "but re-election by default is not one of them".

As Utah senator Mike Lee put it, conservatives cannot "expect to win elections by default".

Conservatives can't afford to win elections by default.

During a speech at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference, Lee said conservatives can't "win elections by default".

These are the un-American traits of division, intolerance, and bigotry that positioned the Bush regime to get away with stealing an election (or by default, 2 elections), to convince the American public to pre-emptively attack Iraq and are in place to convince Americans to attack other countries, such as Iran.

At both the 1999 and 2005 presidential elections, S.R. Nathan was elected by default as the only eligible candidate on nomination day.