Sentence examples for equivalent of election from inspiring English sources

For those for ever striving to regain the intoxication of having been a gilded god at 18, a cabinet post shines as the equivalent of election to Pop, and the prime ministerial job as the ultimate combination of head boy and victor ludorum.

"Plaintiffs' argument is that minorities are entitled to either the equivalent of election law affirmative action or practices that are favored by political organizations dedicated to maximizing Democratic turnout," defense attorneys wrote in their trial brief.

"Plaintiffs' argument is that minorities are entitled to either the equivalent of election law affirmative action or practices that are favored by political organizations dedicated to maximizing Democratic turnout".

The Tories fear that they might lose the bulk of the 900 council seats they gained in the equivalent round of elections in 2007.As for the Lib Dems, if they lose ground to Labour in the north of England ceding control of places such as Newcastle and Stockport the country will look increasingly divided between a prosperous, pro-coalition south and a resentful north.

The electorate is entitled to gauge candidates in the hurly-burly of a full-blown campaign, not in the equivalent of a snap election.

Shenyang officials say that with their new neighborhood elections they are creating the urban equivalent of the village elections now held in most of rural China.

But last week's debate kicked the proceedings into warp speed: with a mere two months until the Iowa caucus, we have reached the primary's equivalent of the general-election campaign's post-Labor Day, 2008, sprint.

BAGHDAD — The followers of Moktada al-Sadr, a radical cleric who led the Shiite insurgency against the American occupation, have emerged as Iraq's equivalent of Lazarus in elections last week, defying ritual predictions of their demise and now threatening to realign the nation's balance of power.

For another, several Democrats argued that Mr. Bush was taking a chance in leaving the White House to campaign, noting that President Bill Clinton did much the same thing in 1994, when the Democrats lost 52 seats in what was the equivalent Congressional election of his presidency.

NBC's White House reporter Samantha Guthrie's question to the president, at his press conference following the elections, as to whether "he gets it" is the post-midterm election equivalent of Velma Hart's town meeting comment to President Obama that she was "exhausted of defending" him.

In 2008/09, the country faced its equivalent of the Bush-Gore election, with the margin of victory just 40,000 out of over nine million cast.