Sentence examples for election elite from inspiring English sources

It's easy to forget that just before Trump's election, elite Washington was rethinking the approach to free trade and globalization that the United States had taken since the 1990s.

For example, he suggests that by the last presidential election, "the elite media had so internalized the false message of their own 'liberalism' " that they had lost the ability to defend themselves convincingly.

But when, at the end of 1991, it won the first round of the parliamentary elections, the elite was panic-struck.

Only landowning white males could run for office and vote, and the voting privilege itself was restricted in presidential elections to elite slates of electors who would effectively choose the country's president and vice president.

Even those voters who genuinely shifted allegiances tended to move to a party with a similar outlook: between secular nationalist parties such as PDI-P and the Democrats, say, or from National Mandate to the Islam-inspired Prosperous Justice Party (PKS .All the same, the Indonesian electorate proved far more independent-minded in the presidential election than the elite in Jakarta had expected.

Pepinsky warns: "The parallels to Ferdinand Marcos, who also was elected in democratic elections and exploited elite and middle-class distress about chronic political instability in the early 1970s before declaring martial law, are troubling".

While the first election brings new elites to power, it is the second election that determines how these elites will yield power.

AFTER the shock of George Bush's re-election, Europe's elite is taking comfort in a new cliché.

A Trump ad released a few days before election day blasted elites for imposing policies "that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities".

This year alone, the results of elections at three elite private universities in the northeastern United States remain in limbo as administrators from Tufts, Brown, and Columbia fight the legitimacy of union drives on their campuses.

With its growing relative impoverishment and faced with the prospect of "losing" the presidency until at least 2015 if Jonathan wins the 2011 election, northern political elites now may well give serious consideration to the candidacy of Muhammadu Buhari, the former military ruler known for his austere lifestyle and intolerance for corruption.