Sentence examples for embarrassing election from inspiring English sources

Officials finished counting the ballots Thursday at noon, all but wrapping up an embarrassing election period that featured eight-hour early voting lines, six-hour Election Day lines, long delays, and Florida's utter irrelevance Tuesday night.

It will be her first meeting with a European leader since the embarrassing election.

The quest for accuracy, after some embarrassing election mix-ups in the past, means speed has been compromised.

Some Europeans I know appreciated the "we're sorry" messages that have exploded on the Internet as an apology to the world for this embarrassing election.

But compared with the elections for the upper house of the Diet next month — with its preordained landslide for the ruling party and its freak candidates  — the girl band's national contest is not this season's most embarrassing election.

Hampered from the outset by his strong Quebecois accent and bumbling demeanour, Liberal leader Stephane Dion has never been given a mandate to lead Canada and ran an embarrassing election campaign this year – notable for his reluctance to debate, he "spoke as if the burden was all on [voters] and he'd had no duty to engage and win them over".

In voting to spare the life of Voter News Service, media executives said Friday that the polling service's computer system will be upgraded and redesigned in the hope of avoiding a repeat of November's embarrassing election-night errors.

And diplomats fear that Sudan is set to stage a repeat of the internationally embarrassing failed election in Afghanistan, although none will say so publicly.

For different reasons, since the Brexit referendum the two parties have faced divisive leadership contests; embarrassing by-election defeats; and even – in UKIP's case – a fucking fist-fight in the European Parliament.

Ulyanovsk's obstinacy has embarrassed local election officials, not to mention the spurned candidates, many of them prominent public figures.

Documents stolen from the DNC and Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta were posted on the Internet before the election, embarrassing the campaign.