Sentence examples for election largely on from inspiring English sources

Mrs Zia won last year's election largely on a promise to reduce violent crime.

The forecast has Mr. Obama as a narrow favorite in the election largely on the basis of the state polls.

The FiveThirtyEight forecast has Mr. Obama as a modest favorite in the election largely on the basis of the state polls.

The previous governor, Gray Davis, was ousted in a recall election largely on the strength of arguments that he had mishandled the economy.

But in 1980, Ronald Reagan pulled ahead of Jimmy Carter only a few days before the election, largely on the basis of his debate performance and a last-minute collapse of a possible deal to free the hostages in Iran.

The ALA wants to contest the next federal election, largely on an anti-Islamic platform that includes a moratorium on immigration from Muslim nations, and a ban on face coverings such as the burqa and niqab.

After triumphing in the midterm elections largely on the strength of his performance as commander in chief, President Bush signaled today that not even a popular wartime president can ignore or escape the political peril of a weak economy.

In France, the Communists did receive twenty-eight per cent of the vote in the 1946 elections, largely on the strength of the Party's reputation as the lion of the Resistance.

Our president ran for re-election largely on the grandest revenge fantasy of all: the killing of Osama bin Laden.

(The group claims that the decision was made before the election, largely based on price).

His running mate Raul Cubas won the 1998 presidential election, largely based on the promise to free Oviedo, which he did days after taking office, over the protest of the Paraguayan Supreme Court and opposition leaders.