Sentence examples for election that preceded from inspiring English sources

2) The Republicans' biggest political victory in the Obama era, the 2010 midterm sweep (and the Scott Brown special election that preceded it), came about when the health care bill was front and center in the public conversation, and G.O.P. opposition to the bill was the party's defining issue.

"I suppose the take away here is that in 2014, as in every election that preceded it, people will say whatever they think they need to in order to win.

Another threat to roil the presidential race emerged Wednesday when a spokesman for the Supreme Constitutional Court said that it planned to issue decisions next Thursday, two days before the runoff voting is scheduled to begin, concerning the legitimacy of the presidential election and the legislative elections that preceded it — and potentially upending both.

With Tuesday night's results in, and Democratic candidate Bill Owens defeating Conservative-Republican canDoug HoffmanHoffman in New York's 23rd congressional district, I thought about the civil war within the Republican Party that preceded the election and will be further accelerated by the experience in this upstate New York conservative Republican district.

Painter is a proponent of the concept of tax credits or vouchers for contributions, which would give all Americans the means to take part in the money election that precedes the general election.

But the meetings came just a month before Taiwan's presidential elections, and seemed in part an effort to avoid the ugly confrontations that preceded the last Taiwan presidential election, in 1996.

Although Thein Sein retired from the army to take office, the 2010 elections that preceded his appointment were widely dismissed as fraudulent and his political party is a military creation.

The Communists were defeated in electoral politics by their refusal to form coalitions with other political groups, and the Congress Party's anti-Communist campaign in the elections that preceded the creation of the state of Andhra Pradesh.

In a sense, the 2010 elections, like pretty much all midterm elections, represent the coda to the presidential vote that preceded them.

During the campaign that preceded the 1960 U.S. Presidential election, both candidates Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy made campaign stops in Alaska.

That is a point backed by research done by Rob Hayward, a former Tory MP, on the byelections and the local and Euro elections that took place last year and the polling that preceded them.