Sentence examples for election of countries from inspiring English sources

But the council has faced similar criticism to the commission, with the election of countries with questionable track records in human rights.

The blow, on May 3 , 2001 was compounded by the election of several countries to the panel -- like Sudan and Sierra Leone -- with records of serious rights abuses.

Hassan's election is part of a larger movement of women gaining more influence in New Hampshire politics, including the state's election of the country's first ever all-female federal delegation.

As the country and the LGBT community were celebrating the election of our country's first African-American president, voters in California, Florida and Arizona blocked marriage equality in their states.

The report, one of the Homeland Security Department's periodic assessments, warned that right-wing extremists could use the bad state of the economy and the election of the country's first black president to recruit members.

Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court ruled Sunday that the laws that governed the election of the country's only operating house of Parliament as well as the body that drafted the country's postrevolutionary Constitution were invalid.

CAIRO — Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court ruled Sunday that the laws that governed the election of the country's only operating house of Parliament as well as the body that drafted the country's postrevolutionary Constitution were invalid.

Without action by the Florida Legislature, the delay this recount entails may prevent the state's voters from participating at all in the election of their country's president.

Its candidate, after all, resoundingly won the election of the country he was wooing.

She did feel some triumph though at the election of the country's first female prime minister.

The last three episodes cover 1897-1940 (Jim Crow), 1940-68 (the civil rights movement) and 1968-2013 (thelectionof of this country's first black president).