Sentence examples for election to give from inspiring English sources

(Mr. Powell has not endorsed Mr. Obama for a second term; he waited until a few weeks before the election to give him his backing last time).

However, there are rumours that Moscow's pro-Putin Mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, wanted Mr Navalny to run in September's election to give the vote an air of legitimacy.

He allegedly said that he represented a wealthy but politically inexperienced donor who had been motivated by Trump's election to give to progressive causes.

"Even if elected on Tuesday," she went on, "Senator Stevens should step aside to allow a special election to give Alaskans a real choice of who will serve them in Congress".

They include two referendums – one before the 2015 election to give Mr Cameron a mandate as he negotiates a "new settlement" with the EU — and another by 2017 on whether to stay in or leave the Union.

Though some Labour MPs, including former government ministers, talked of replacing him or persuading him to resign prior to the election to give Labour a better chance of winning under a new leader, talk never translated into effective action.

It would also require the states, which administer elections, to give them appropriate notice that this right has been restored.

The canal issue cost the Democrats enough seats in the next two elections to give the Republicans a majority and relegate Mr. Byrd to minority leader in 1981.

It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy – and important for the vote always to turn out "their way".

But unlike 2010, when Republicans picked up six governorships in the midterm elections, to give the party 29 governors, to 20 Democrats and 1 independent, there was also much less of a national trend.

"I've always cast my ballot, but these politicians deserve a 99 percent abstention rate in the next elections, to give them a signal," Massimo Rossi, 49, a street vendor in Rome, said while putting away a case of green beans.