Sentence examples for exhausting election from inspiring English sources

Gordon Brown did not know that the microphone (thoughtfully provided by Rupert Murdoch's Sky News) was still live (something which I am amazed is not a breach of privacy) and let off steam in the back of a car in the middle of an exhausting election campaign.

Anyone can get dog tired and tetchy after an exhausting election.

The swearing-in ceremony, held in a packed stadium in Nairobi, capped an exhausting election period that started months ago when the country's leading politicians split into rival camps.

To help determine how that lies, after a long and exhausting election campaign, The Economist today publishes its own MORI opinion poll, carried out on April 25th-28th, of what voters really want.Voters have clear views— on most of the issues we asked about, "don't knows" comprised only a small proportion of respondents.

She slogged through an exhausting primary election in 2008, followed by four equally exhausting years as Secretary of State.

After an exhausting re-election victory that drained supporters of hundreds of millions of dollars, some of President Obama's advisers are reportedly urging that the second inaugural scrap a praiseworthy innovation of his first: the banning of corporate donations to pay for the day's many expensive galas.

As the candidates set out on the exhausting trek to Election Day, one of the most basic concerns is whether they have the health and strength to run the nation.

In the intervening hours, partisans had taken to their battlefield lines and tried to make sense of how a simple story – a candidate fell ill over the course of an exhausting, 18-month election – could spiral so out of control.

After an exhausting and contentious election process, Ashraf Ghani, a US-educated anthropologist turned reformist politician, has finally been sworn in as president of Afghanistan in the first peaceful transfer of power since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

That one-time budget surplus has been exhausted and elections officials are once again stuck with aging and increasingly obsolete equipment and no money to acquire new technology.

Musharraf ruled for nine years, bullying the Supreme Court and fixing elections, and exhausting the public's patience for military rule.