Sentence examples for election opening from inspiring English sources

Political analysts here predict that Noda's ruling Democratic Party of Japan will be handed a landslide defeat in an upcoming parliamentary election, opening the door for the Liberal Democratic Party to return to power.

Under the new system brought in by last year's referendum, Mr. Erdogan can run for a second term as president — and a third, if he were to call an early election — opening the possibility that he could stay in office until 2032.

Japan's ruling coalition wins election, opening door to constitutional change.

Nor are they in any mood to listen to elders still repenting their youthful votes for Eldridge Cleaver rather than Hubert Humphrey in the fraught 1968 election, opening the way for Richard Nixon.

But it could also create a general election opening for Democrats, currently shut out of power in deeply Republican Kansas, who believe they can mobilize voters opposed to Mr. Kobach's strident policies and potentially flip the governorship and two or three congressional seats.

"I actually think that this election opens doors, not nails them shut," she said.

Vojislav Kostunica's election opens new possibilities for diplomatic resolution of the status of Kosovo.

In a statement, the Jesuit superior general, Adolfo Nicolás, said Bergoglio's election "opens for the church a path full of hope … at this crucial time".

Mr. Erdogan said in an interview on Sunday that Barack Obama's election opened new opportunities for a shift in relations between the United States and Iran, Turkey's neighbor.

But as the two-week nomination period for the election opened this week, it seemed likely that two further candidates would receive the endorsement of at least 150 election-committee members, and so qualify as candidates.

And, as we suggested might happen, the Kuomintang's victory in Taiwan's presidential election opened the way for a resumption of direct flights to and from mainland China.We had a pretty good Olympics, too.