Sentence examples for election to test from inspiring English sources

Montague followed up with a question about balaclavas, which tripped Robinson up, but did not ask why the group was not interested in standing for election, to test its public support democratically.

This is also the first presidential election to test the impact of a 2010 Supreme Court decision that allows companies and unions to spend unlimited sums on election ads.

He also asked the State Board of Elections to test modern voting machinery and establish a statewide standard for counting punch-card and paper ballots.

R. J. Boram, the chief programmer of the R. F. Shoup Company, and Shamos advocate a high-prestige national election commission to test and certify vote-counting systems, including the software for them; Howard Strauss and a Princeton colleague have prepared for Election Watch, a small group that is working for change in this area, a specific proposal for a national testing authority.

Every presidential election seems to test the frequently quoted cold war-era axiom of former Senator Arthur Vandenberg, a Republican who cooperated with President Harry S. Truman, that "politics stops at the water's edge" — though even then the rule was often observed in the breach.

The company is also using the Election Center to test out some new technology.

The jubilant leader of the Republicans in the US Senate, Mitch McConnell, on Wednesday challenged Barack Obama to find common ground with Congress after the Democrats' crushing defeat in the US midterm elections threatened to test the limits of the president's power during his final two years in office.

He told enthusiastic campaign rallies with growing crowds that he would not accept a postponement of the election even before Mr. Toledo demanded that the vote be put off several weeks to give foreign election observers time to test new computer software installed to count the vote.

Still, Mr. Saakashvili has called a presidential election for Jan . 5to test popular support for his government.

Meshaal, speaking in Cairo, welcomed the ceasefire and said "the Israeli conspiracy" that had sought election propaganda and to "test Egypt" had "failed in its objectives".

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