Sentence examples for epochal election from inspiring English sources

But he has wanted to be where he is, running for President in an epochal election, for a very long time, and the ferocious contest he finds himself in is well suited to him, not because he likes combat, exactly, but because in combat he tends to handle himself well.

Now and then, British elections are epochal, setting the tone for other countries, too.

Zimbabwe will have a presidential runoff election on Friday, an epochal choice between Robert Mugabe, the 84-year-old liberation hero who has run the nation for nearly three decades, and the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

We are told that your election was an event of epochal significance, but from Jo'burg, it looked boring – three nice white men with almost identical opinions jostling for space on the same centrist pinhead.

The third Thatcher election win had confirmed an epochal crisis, but it had yet to rise to the challenge, and so Demos had two essential aims: to build an organisation that might match the clout once wielded by Thatcherite thinktanks such as the Institute Of Economic Affairs; and to focus on such non-traditional areas as culture, community, national identity and participatory democracy.

But just when you thought the long national civics lesson in election law was over, there is the epochal battle for one of the three seats on the nonpartisan West Hempstead-Hempstead Gardens Water District's Board of Commissioners.

Above all, the election of Donald J Trump has the feel of an epochal event, of a geopolitical disruption, of planet-wide regime change.

Whatever American residents may think about his politics, they are clearly captivated, if not also captured, not only by the epochal first-this-and-first-that of his candidacy and election but the timeless quality of brilliance in his open-pore skill at public performance.

Judged by his past speeches, Ryan will cast the election as a choice between national bankruptcy and rebirth, an epochal decision that will determine the fate of a great nation.

The 30th anniversary of that first general election win is approaching: thus the Thatcherite nostalgia.The regicide of 1990 was an epochal moment in British politics.

And you single-handedly paved the way for the election of a true Change candidate -- Obama -- who now has the epochal opportunity to put our country in harmony with the practices of the more advanced nations in the world.