Sentence examples for extravagant election from inspiring English sources

Six months after Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's extravagant election campaign won him the presidency, the IMF discovered he had bought a $40m presidential jet, even though Mali already had one.

At home, rather than allowing his ministers to rail about reparations, he needs to get behind reform, and explain to his voters why Syriza's extravagant election promises cannot be kept.Under Mr Tsipras Greece has been squandering opportunities to make a deal with the rest of the euro zone.

Mr Putin has made extravagant pre-election promises, adding up to as much as $160 billion to the budget, which will push this ratio even higher.

The active mourning even extended to the Tory press, whose praise for a man it had greedily reviled at the last election was quite extravagant.

Or as Arnold Schwarzenegger put it, during the many extravagant moments of his 2003 election campaign, he was about to "kick the butts" of the "girlie men" politicians who run California.

While elections grow more extravagant, the US grows increasingly unequal.

The Election Commission held an extravagant number of inquiries into allegations of vote-fiddling, mainly directed at the PPP.

Public-sector wages rose 28% last year and almost 25% in the first half of this year, the fruit of extravagant promises made during last year's election campaign.

It was election time in Peru, and extravagant promises were being made.

Drowning out the faded signs and symbols of Pakistan's other political parties, they pointed to Khan's extravagant spending in anticipation of the general elections, scheduled for next year.

Based on which a few thousand of its voters end up choosing, one party will then make extravagant claims about its prospects in the presidential election of 2016.