Sentence examples for electioneering from from inspiring English sources

They have been forced to learn the basics of electioneering, from circulating petitions and news releases to fund-raising and canvassing.

He claimed that the allegations were "a bit of electioneering from people who aren't terribly keen to see a Labour mayor".

He has countenanced electioneering from the pulpit.

The Green's Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas described it as "an electioneering budget from a chancellor who puts politics above people".

Too many Super PACs and nonprofit organizations with ties to candidates have popped up to think they all have a Chinese wall separating their electioneering activities from the candidates.

He held the post for one year, during which he played host to Abraham Lincoln, a distant relation from Illinois who was electioneering for Zachary Taylor on the Whig ticket in the 1848 presidential election.

This broke the rules that prohibit public officials from electioneering.

He took time out from electioneering to complete a doctoral thesis comparing the effects of development spending on rural and urban poverty.

SCORECARD -- This issue advertisement, paid for in part with the soft money donated to the parties in unrestricted amounts, is supposed to refrain from electioneering.

Like about two dozen other states, including Florida, New York settled on "merit selection," intended to steer between election and pure appointment -- and thus away from electioneering and cronyism.

The impression left by the event at a downtown Chicago hotel ballroom was of a political leader converting to governance from electioneering.