Sentence examples for failure to elect from inspiring English sources

"Some of the advocates of chaplains lament that there has been in our Legislature so much 'disgraceful squabbling' over the election, and failure to elect a chaplain.

But the future of this course was thrown into doubt in the dying days of 2014, when parliament's failure to elect a president triggered a snap election.

Greece is plunged into crisis as failure to elect a president sets up a snap election.

And occasionally, when the London commuters are feeling particularly bored, the subject is America, as in this proclamation written by one on the subject of the disputed presidential election: "In light of your failure to elect a president of the U.S.A. and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today.

LONDON -- The British public's failure to elect a clear winner in Thursday's national election appeared to be a mass expression of exasperation with a discredited government and an uninspiring opposition.

A failure to elect a president would lead to snap parliamentary elections, possibly on 25 January or 1 February, but opinion polls suggest that it is unlikely Syriza would win an outright majority.

More serious, perhaps, was Marat's failure to be elected to the Academy of Sciences.

Iain Duncan Smith has blamed the 9/11 terrorist attacks on his failure to be elected Prime Minister and claimed Tony Blair "milked" the aftermath "for all that was worth".

The party's general election campaign director Patrick O'Flynn made the comments about Farage after the latter resigned the party's leadership following his failure to be elected as an MP, before withdrawing that resignation within days – he said – at the request of the party.

But it deserves credit for noticing early that the BNP was becoming worryingly effective at exploiting the expenses crisis (its European election campaign material depicted the mainstream parties as pigs at the trough, turning its failure to get elected at Westminster into a tactical advantage), another move beyond the politics of race.

The comments highlighted a divide within UKIP over Mr Farage's decision to remain as party leader following his failure to get elected as an MP in Thanet South.