Sentence examples for elections open to from inspiring English sources
In the early 20th century, widespread outrage over the selection of candidates from alderman to President by party bosses in "smoke filled rooms," led to the passage of laws requiring candidates to be elected by primary elections open to all party members.
The first democratic elections open to all races were held in 1994.
Also necessary is an equal commitment to holding fair elections open to all groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Good-government types spread the idea that the parties ought to nominate candidates through primary elections open to as many people as possible.
The concept for the international park took hold after Mozambique ended 27 years of war in 1992, and South Africa held its first elections open to all races in 1994.
Of the 39 countries this survey is talking about, only seven can in one degree or another even hesitantly be called democracies.There is Turkey, where the habit of regular elections open to more or less everybody seems to have survived three rather half-hearted military seizures of power between 1960 and 1980.
Labour will select its candidate in July in a primary election open to supporters who pay a £3 fee.
The general election, open to everyone, is where the suburbs exert their influence the most, said Lee M. Miringoff, of the Marist Institute of Public Opinion in Poughkeepsie.
French socialism hadn't been irrevocably tarnished in New York after all, and another contender, chosen in October through a popular primary election open to all, soon shot up to the top of the polls.
This was the only election open to everyone in the UK and potentially it could change the British constitution in an important way - but only if the pollsters have collectively made the most enormous mistake in British polling history.
Fair enough, but the critics note than none of these posts came through a direct election open to all voters, and on the sole occasion when he did face such an election, in the parliamentary contest of 1978, he lost.But surely a second glance is called for.
