Sentence examples for election straight from inspiring English sources

The N.G.O.s "were fighting a rearguard action to get this election straight," and emphasized at meetings that "the idea of picking favorites never works," he said.

An election straight from Freedonia was an expression of a national anhedonia, a mass loss of appetite for mediocrity, artificiality, pandering, meandering and the rest of the cheap tricks that passed for campaign 2000.

Mr Johnson would probably pull back in some disillusioned English voters, maybe avoiding the utter, fissiparous general-election rout that now seems likely (it would help if he were to set a date for the election straight away).The ultimate question about Mr Johnson, of course, is not "who" but "whether".

The FTP Act says that if a government loses a vote of confidence, there does not have to be a general election straight away.

Because that is what you will probably want to do the day after the election: straight-up splice together a bunch of "moments" like a flip-book of stumbling stick figures so you will know exactly what went on in the life of America according to a Beltway newsletter.

While Mr. Ter-Petrossian, 63, put up a real opposition with an aggressive campaign, the rest of the election was straight out of the post-Soviet playbook.

Mr. Rove, who has known the president for 30 years, managed his 2000 campaign, piled up Republican gains in the 2002 midterm elections and is running the 2004 re-election operation straight from the White House.

Blame for the tragic bloodshed in Mexico that has left more than 22,000 dead and is now spiking with a series of assassinations of political leaders leading up to Sunday's national elections leads straight to America's failed War on Drugs.

After Baptists in annual elections had elected 12 straight conservative convention presidents, who then used their position to appoint conservative educators and administrators, a group of moderates broke away in 1990 to form what they called a new fellowship.

However, in nonpartisan elections without straight-ticket voting, participation is increased compared to nonpartisan elections with straight-ticket voting.

We find that in nonpartisan elections, the straight-party option decreases voter participation since voters who utilize the straight-ticket option may erroneously believe that they have voted for these nonpartisan offices, or simply ignore them.