Sentence examples for election drags on from inspiring English sources

As the presidential election drags on without a clear-cut winner, we have compiled this table of contents to Forbes.com's original election coverage.

HAMID KARZAI has been dealt a painful blow as the saga of Afghanistan's torturous presidential election drags on.

It is Thanksgiving week in the year 2000, as the contested presidential election drags on, and the boom years of the 90's are beginning to turn a corner.

And as the election dragged on, it produced a streak of another kind.

The turmoil is the worst since the 2009 Green Movement challenge — then over allegations of fraud in a Presidential election — that dragged on for six months.

As the post-election standoff has dragged on, hopes had risen that King Sihamoni could serve as a mediator, a role often played by his father.

Although the contract is scheduled to expire four months before next year's mayoral election, municipal labor negotiations typically drag on for long periods after a contract's expiration.

Otherwise, they said, Florida's six million voters might be shut out of the presidential election as Mr. Gore's challenge dragged on, approaching the Dec. 12 deadline beyond which a state's electors are no longer immunized from Congressional challenge.

"If his possible purchase of the club wasn't coinciding with George W. Bush's re-election and the Iraq war dragging on, I think it probably would have gone through".

It has allowed the finalisation of complex funding formulae to drag on into an election year.

The austerity measures would now drag on far beyond the next general election, currently scheduled for 2015.