Sentence examples for election tried from inspiring English sources

He has a strong union, working-class background, and in the last election tried to win Doncaster only to be beaten to the punch by one Ed Miliband.

HARARE, Zimbabwe — When the main challengers in Zimbabwe's presidential election tried to import motorcycles to register voters across vast distances, the government impounded them, forcing the party to use bicycles instead.

The Socialist candidate in next year's presidential election tried to dispel a reputation as a lightweight, especially on foreign affairs, by heading to the toughest region on the planet.How did she do?

Mr. Franks, who had hoped to save his property tax initiative for the general election, tried to make the most of it today, releasing a new, upbeat television commercial trumpeting the tax plan.

Mr. Sarkozy, to try to win the election, tried to appeal to the far right to gain the support of the 6.4 million people who voted for Ms. Le Pen, who won nearly 18 percent of the vote in the first round on April 22.

Republicans think that Team Obama, weeks before the election, tried to suppress news that undermined the two main boasts of foreign-policy success in Mr Obama's first term: the use of limited American force to help topple the Qaddafi regime in Libya and the pounding dealt to al-Qaeda by drones and special forces.

WINNING an election tries a candidate's mettle.

"We will be spending a significant amount of time for the remainder of the election trying to court upstate voters".

Or a Republican candidate who might, in a general election, try to soften his Brooklyn bark.

Whatever rolling crapstorm we wake up to the morning after next week's election, try to remember: it could be worse.

The US government shutdown has been prompted by the party that recently lost an election trying to overturn a law it doesn't like.