Sentence examples for electoral powerhouse from inspiring English sources

That prospect may help keep many UMNO members loyal in the general election, and help sustain the party as an electoral powerhouse.

The discouraging outlook for Republicans, who have the governorships of every major electoral powerhouse except California, stems partly from past triumphs.

And finally, there is no certainty he could even carry the electoral powerhouse that is California, which has always been the principal rationale for any national candidacy.

With the Martin faction increasingly restless in Ontario, the nation's economic and electoral powerhouse, a dozen Liberal members of Parliament loyal to the finance minister secretly met with his advisers recently in a Toronto airport hotel.

"The Iron Lady," as she was dubbed, was credited with converting a spent Conservative Party from an old boys club into an electoral powerhouse identified with middle-class strivers, investors and entrepreneurs.

Never before have so many electoral powerhouses held so many contests simultaneously.

Just a week after March 7 comes "Super Tuesday," with primaries in 11 states, including the electoral powerhouses of Florida, Texas, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois, by the end of which a nomination could be locked up.

After claiming the two biggest electoral powerhouses, California and New York, which account for more than 40percentt of the delegates chosen yesterday, Mr. Bush and Mr. Gore immediately turned to each other -- and to firing the first salvos of the more than eight-month general election campaign that lies ahead.

I asked him whether the northern powerhouse was part of his long-term electoral plan to win parliamentary seats in the north of England.

He is also a technological optimist whose administration has invested tens of millions of dollars in dubious "clean coal" schemes that play well back in his home state of Illinois (and other electoral college powerhouses in the Midwest) but offer little practical capacity to reduce carbon emissions.

WASHINGTON -- Although it lost three of its marquee Senate races on Tuesday, the hardline economic conservative group Club for Growth bested both Karl Rove's American Crossroads and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a corporate lobbying powerhouse, in its 2012 electoral efforts.