Sentence examples for electoral bid from inspiring English sources

Toledo, who came eighth in an electoral bid last year, said the charges had been orchestrated by his "traditional enemies".

Theresa May pleads for the benefit of the doubt, even when her last such request – the electoral bid for a personalised Brexit mandate – cost her a Commons majority.

He added that Poplar town hall was sold, against official advice, to an individual who helped the mayor in his electoral bid.

He was recovering in the hospital when he decided to make his first electoral bid, for the Rhode Island Legislature against an entrenched Democratic incumbent.

His intransigence is not a good start.For Mr Fox, the challenge is to convince the sceptics—not just Congress, but also businessmen, many of whom supported his electoral bid.

We don't even get to find out what she thought about No Child Left Behind before her docile vice president has taken over, and her brother, a Republican governor, has mounted an electoral bid against him, guaranteeing an America safe from the now-rampant subway gassings and tunnel bombs.

He also lost electoral bids to those two bodies in 1996 and to the Lok Sabha in 1998.

If the opposition leader has sparked an electoral bidding war on utility costs, then so much the better.

Earlier, as he emerged from dinner, the president revealed his birthday wish: that both his wife and Vice President Al Gore win their electoral bids.

Indeed, his image has been appropriated in electoral bids, hip-hop songs, church sermons and fast-food ads -- of such diverse and contradictory meanings that he couldn't possibly have approved of all of them.

But the 3Cosas activists I have spoken to have pointed out how they were blocked by Unison's Senate House branch: outsourced workers' campaigns unsupported by branch leadership; their electoral bids for union committee positions thwarted when Unison declared the poll void.