Sentence examples for electoral credentials from inspiring English sources

By most standards, Clinton has been an able or even outstanding Senator, and hopefully will be a great Secretary of State, but her electoral credentials in 2000 were non-existent, and her political ones limited to her proximity to the outgoing President, and to the access that provided.

Police arrested several opposition members on Thursday after they tried to enter the electoral commission building to demand credentials to observe the vote at polling stations.

He can also count on the powerful army's backing and the implicit support of Egypt's sprawling state.The contest's lopsided nature was exposed when the candidates put their credentials to Egypt's electoral board.

"Chávez's detractors have claimed he is a dictator, but he proved his democratic credentials by accepting an electoral defeat," said Bart Jones, author of a new biography of Mr. Chávez.

Its dangerous struggle against the regime of the detested ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali partly explains its success at this election: Voters were looking for a clean break with the past and Ennahda's strong anti-corruption credentials proved a powerful electoral asset.

By default, the vice presidential nomination with Hillary probably goes to one of Virginia's two senators, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, both former governors with plenty of smarts, credentials and swing-state electoral votes, but largely unknown to the younger voter demographic.

Mr. Gatto's reputation as a Westchester Serpico may vault him into electoral politics in the county, where environmental credentials go a long way.

In a move that alarmed the opposition, electoral officials over the weekend revoked the observer credentials of Jorge Quiroga, a former president of Bolivia and an outspoken critic of Mr. Chávez.

The belief among the nationalist parties who underwrote the democratic credentials of Sinn Fein was that they would not become an electoral threat for another five years.

Foot was replaced later that year by Neil Kinnock, a politician with leftist credentials who set about reestablishing Labour as a credible national electoral force.

He was a provincial senator with modest credentials, propelled into the prime minister's job by an electoral upset and seen as little more than a puppet of the praetorian guard surrounding President Jacques Chirac.