Sentence examples for election signs from inspiring English sources

So many towns have passed statutes that stipulate the number of days past the election signs can remain.

Cross the border there and the election signs thin out, a signal of the anger still simmering beneath the surface.

It was the most contentious in recent memory, and tempers flared when the two candidates' election signs were stolen.

ON a sweltering 109-degree August day, driving past election signs (John McCain, J. D. Hayworth, Ben Quayle) and cacti (saguaro), I pulled into a roadside mini-mall, hoping it was the right one.

A bikie has been arrested for allegedly vandalising and stealing election signs bearing the face of Queensland's attorney general Jarrod Bleijie, the face of the state's crackdown on outlaw motorcycle gangs.

Election signs, particularly homemade ones, have always been a goading, nervy type of folk art; while reporting from the Republican National Convention, in July, I took endless pictures of the sheets of poster board amid the crowds, always proudly clutched and raised heavenward, broadcasting outrage and often accompanied by a crude illustration.

Driving through his neighborhood one Saturday with all this on his mind, he passed an election sign with a familiar name on it.

There have been setbacks — Spygate is his third-term election; signing Albert Haynesworth is his soda ban — but there has mostly been success.

But Mr. DuHaime, who had run President Bush's effort in the Northeast in a past election, signed off on it, as did Mr. Giuliani's other top campaign aides.

People supporting the changes have been canvassing Southeast with petitions in hand, seeking to invoke a little-known state law that says if signatures equal to 5percentt of the town's registered voters who cast ballots in the last gubernatorial election sign a petition, that is enough to require a binding referendum to be held by special election or during general elections.

Brownlee enjoyed early success as premier: he handily won the 1926 election, signed an agreement with the federal government transferring control over Alberta's natural resources to its provincial government, sold the struggling government railways to the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railway companies, and ran a series of balanced budgets.