Sentence examples for electoral means from inspiring English sources

After years of political unrest, including an abortive coup in 2002, last year Venezuelans agreed to resolve their differences through peaceful electoral means.

And they have spent the past 30 years creating a lock on media and politics to ensure no one will do so through electoral means.

For Mr. Cuomo, pursuing the matter, and potentially bringing about the governor's downfall by legal rather than electoral means, could open him up to accusations of political opportunism and abuse of power.

His latest remarks put him squarely on record opposing the administrative and electoral means by which Mr. Putin has ensured that his circle will remain in power, and calling for more strict civilian control over Russia's elections.

While Chávez, Morales and Correa played by the rules and reached power through democratic elections, in Mexico the opposition is quickly losing faith in the possibility of achieving social change by electoral means.

The speeches of the guerrillas also sounded hopeful as they agreed to participate in the process of democratic political competition; that is, they would give up the political power of the gun to seek the political power always limited of the ballot box, and try to foster social change through electoral means.

Having lost every election since 2001, the opponents of Mr Thaksin have since invested their efforts in non-electoral means to try and ensure he and his family are forced from office.

We can and should pressure our elected officials through non-electoral means: letter writing, petitions, and town hall meetings, running ads in their districts, vigils and protests in front of their offices, and organizing their constituents to speak out.

Again, the reporting of such media outlets as NPR is stunning in that, while acknowledging these recent election results and the fact that the opposition has no electoral path to governing for two years, it nonetheless purports to be supporting democratic values by applauding the opposition's efforts to obtain governance through violent, non-electoral means.

He denies the loss of electoral reform means his wider constitutional reform project is dead.

An electoral pact means not standing candidates against the most likely to win.