Sentence examples for electorate held from inspiring English sources

After last week's debate, the share of undecided voters in the electorate held constant at slightly less than 3%.

Haley's speech, which perhaps not unexpectedly equivocated about a decision that will alienate a swath of the electorate, held that it was possible for the tradition that valorizes the Confederate flag to coexist with the one that recognizes it as a symbol of oppression and slavery — just not on state grounds.

A referendum of the Scottish electorate, held on 11 September 1997, approved the establishment of a directly-elected Scottish Parliament to legislate on most domestic affairs.

The electorate holds two contradictory views about the same issue.

Republicans are eager to keep a foothold in Albany, where Democrats, who now outnumber Republicans two to one among the state's electorate, hold all statewide offices and control the Assembly.

Republicans, who are outnumbered by Democrats in the state's electorate, hold a 33-to-29 33-to-29 33-to-29enate, and through redistricting that favored their incumajorityhin year, they added a Senateo the Senand.

In the Spanish context, where the electorate holds the E.U. in ongoing reverence, accepting what could be euphemized as a European austerity checklist could be a politically manageable way out for the prime minister.

White politicians were forced to take notice because the area represented the civil rights era ideal of "consolidated black voting power", a minority electorate holding the power to swing close polls.

Still, the autumn run-up to voting found Rove, whose entire career has focused on mobilizing bias in the electorate, holding court for a press corps that hung on his every utterance.

But even as the new generation's increasing presence in the electorate holds out the promise of the end of the gender gap in American politics, the strains of the Democratic primary contest threaten to pit this new "civic" generation's inclusive and optimistic attitudes and beliefs against the more divisive political behavior of older generations, especially Boomers.

True, evidence suggests that the Welsh electorate hold devolved-level politicians in higher esteem than their Westminster equivalents.