Sentence examples for election to avoid from inspiring English sources

Others may wait until shortly before the election to avoid a byelection.

Mr. Christie went against a long Justice Department presumption against opening investigations or bringing indictments right before an election, to avoid affecting the outcome.

Consequently, the commission urged the legislature to adopt the pay raises well in advance of the next gubernatorial election to avoid making the subject a political football.

From tiny groups vocal on local matters to great national organisations, all risk being silenced in the year before a general election, to avoid falling under electoral law.

And some analysts suggest that the Fed will wait, if possible, until after the presidential election, to avoid inevitable criticism from Republicans who have pressed the central bank to forswear new steps.

Governor Bush, the president's brother, appointed an election task force, which has recommended that all counties switch to optical-scan voting machines by the 2002 election to avoid the problems of the punch-card systems.

At her White House events, she avoids any mention of re-election, to avoid seeming overtly political.

Also, Representative Brad Miller, a five-term Democrat, said Thursday that he would not seek re-election, to avoid a primary battle against another politician in the state.

Representative Brad Miller, a five-term Democrat from North Carolina, also will not seek re-election to avoid a primary battle against another incumbent Democrat, he told supporters in an e-mail on Thursday.

Rafsanjani told the assembly that he would not seek re-election to "avoid division" if Kani ran for the post, and Kani got 63 votes as the sole candidate.

A more benign version of the thesis – that Siri might have changed his own mind – can be glimpsed, in comedic form, behind Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope in the UK), the 2011 film by Nanni Moretti, in which a pontiff goes on the run post-election to avoid taking up office.