Sentence examples for election stunt from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile fulminating opposition councillors have accused Ducker of pulling "an election stunt".

Its secretary, Peter Marshall, said: "Victorians saw Turnbull and Cash's meddling for what it was – a federal election stunt".

Unless he assigns several people to work full time for a year, it's not going to happen and it's an election stunt".

Nigel Farage, Ukip's highest-profile election candidate, had a miraculous escape yesterday after his aircraft crashed following a last-minute election stunt.

Channel 4 pulled the plug on E4 in an unparalleled election stunt, replacing its regular programming with "Darren", the man supposedly responsible for keeping E4 on air.

The director of Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti, said that if the government sabotaged its own legislation Britain's continuing "violation of the court judgment" would be "a cynical election stunt".

The judo black belt appears to relish his macho image, helped by election stunts like flying into Chechnya on a fighter jet in 2000 and appearing at a Russian bikers' rally after the 2011 parliamentary election date was announced.

This is beginning to smell of a pre-election stunt".

Argentina has branded Britain's plans to beef up defences in the Falklands a provocation and a pre-election stunt.

The real significance of the Jericho episode resides not in whether it was a pre-election stunt by Israel, or whether there was collusion between the Israelis and the British, as some have speculated (see article).

However, Richard Burden, Labour's shadow roads minister, claims the first road investment strategy is "a pre-election stunt with no new money", and that its funding was outlined in 2013.