Sentence examples for faced elections from inspiring English sources

As in some other states, the government in Maharashtra, which faced elections last year, gave farmers free electricity for irrigation pumps and, in effect, everything else.

Forces from Chad and Nigeria drove Boko Haram out of a self-proclaimed Islamic caliphate earlier this year, as former President Goodluck Jonathan faced elections.

One meeting organizer said, though, that the invitations had been sent out late and that some leaders declined because they faced elections and other domestic issues.

Many of the countries in the eye of the storm today including Britain, Ireland, Italy and Portugal are on this list, having been forced to implement severe fiscal consolidations before.The paper then looks at what happened to incumbent governments that faced elections either during the period of fiscal tightening or within two years of its having come to a close.

The talks with Mr. Barak's Labor government failed despite the intervention of President Clinton, who offered Mr. Arafat an 11th-hour peace package to secure a final settlement before the end of his term in office and before Mr. Barak faced elections in February 2001.

He has never faced election.

Mr. Sarkozy is facing elections next year.

Both countries face elections this year.

Merkel faces elections herself next year.

He faces elections on 10 August.

That also applies to countries facing elections in 2012.