Sentence examples for election got off from inspiring English sources
The 2012 election got off to a slow start, although it was widely expected that Mitt Romney, who had run in 2008, would again seek the Republican nomination.
Nigeria's eagerly awaited election got off to an embarrassing start on Saturday when the country's president, Goodluck Jonathan, was denied registration and officials had to scramble to find a way for him to vote.
But the election got off to an embarrassing start when national television showed the president, in his trademark black fedora, standing patiently in a tented polling booth for 20 minutes in his home village.
The election season got off to a late start, postponed by President Musharraf's suspension of the constitution and declaration of a state of emergency.
Bombing at Shiite Shrine Kills 9, Wounds 40 Iraq's election campaign got off to a bloody start when a bomb exploded near the gate of one Iraq's holiest Shiite Muslim shrines in Karbala, killing 9 people and wounding 40, including a top aide to the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
After the violence and turmoil of the past year, it seemed enough that the elections had got off to a free, fair and friendly start.By Thursday, however, the outcome was still far from clear.
AFTER narrowly winning a divisive presidential election, Ollanta Humala has got off to an unexpectedly calm start as Peru's president.
No presidential election, in fact, has got off to such a slow start since 1992 when, as now, there was an incumbent president and no obvious front-runner ready to take him on.
Bishop said the Liberal party had not been expected to win the 2010 Victorian election and "sadly they got off to a bit of a shaky start" and this was complicated by the instability caused by the Liberal-turned-independent MP Geoff Shaw.
The campaign for the regional election in Catalonia on 28 November got off to a discouraging start for Spain's ruling Socialist party (PSOE).
New York City's first nonpartisan election campaign under the new City Charter - a special election for the City Council on Staten Island - has got off to a highly partisan start.
