Sentence examples for election constituted from inspiring English sources

In 2004, Mr. Cayne, a committed Republican, publicly upbraided Mr. Spector for making it seem that his own support for Senator John Kerry, the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, constituted an endorsement from Bear Stearns itself.

We wish Yair Lapid's success in the Israeli election constituted an unambiguous endorsement of vigorous peace talks, but voters in exit polls said they were more focused on domestic issues.

The victory of Barack Obama in the 2008 election constituted an explicit and overwhelming rejection of an ideology that had engulfed the Republican Party since Reagan won the White House in 1980.

His defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, said the election constituted "a defeat for the enemies of the Iraqi people, the enemies of the legitimate Iraqi government... a defeat to the people who have been doing the beheadings and conducting the suicide raids".

The plan was backed by former Councilman Mike Gotch, who saw it as the only way to rescue Mission Beach from "derelicts, drug pushers and the decay". The developers insisted that their possession of building permits and investment of $5 million before last November's election constituted a vested right to build.

I ended the piece with the following, To our elected leaders: failure to act prior to the election constitutes a failure in leadership on the part of the President, the Speaker of the House, and the Senate Majority Leader.

To our elected leaders: failure to act prior to the election constitutes a failure of leadership on the part of the President, the Speaker of the House, and the Senate Majority Leader.

In global historical terms, too, his election constitutes in some respects a revolution.

You report (front page, Nov. 4) that the White House claims that the election constitutes a "mandate" for the second term.

"This election constitutes a first step on the path to reform, which should lead to a deepening of democracy and human rights," he said at a news conference.

So far, Mr. Obama has largely stuck to his past positions, gambling that the 51 percent of the popular vote he won in this month's election constitutes a mandate that will force Republicans to back down.