Sentence examples for favored elections from inspiring English sources

Several experts said few lawmakers favored elections, the center-left because of worries that Mr. Berlusconi might win, based on polls showing his party has the most support, and the center-right because several leaders would like to take Mr. Berlusconi's place as leader of the center-right.

History shows that U.S. "favored" elections are a sine qua non of Haitian election cycles.

We know from leaked deliberations that some top Chinese leaders, such as Li Ruihuan, favored elections (partly because, frankly, the Communist Party could hold elections and win them, relying on rural support to overwhelm resentment in the cities).

Instead, the Bharatiya Janata Party's leadership announced that it favored early elections in Gujarat.

Ibrahim Jafari, head of the Dawa Islamic Party, said Wednesday that he favored direct elections.

He said he favored new elections this summer if no new government were formed.

Growing intolerant of the antiwar movement at home, which he read about in the local newspaper, the Putnam Banner, sent to him by his father, Josiah favored suppressing elections.

But across the room, John Valentine, 48, a Democrat who owns a chemical manufacturing company, said he favored nonpartisan elections because they would offer more candidates to choose from.

Emerging from an all-day meeting tonight, leaders of the Peronists, formally known as the Judicialist Party, said they favored presidential elections on March 3 but gave no indication of who their candidate might be.

Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, leader of the Social Democratic Alliance, which formed the other faction in the ruling coalition government, also stated that she favored spring elections.

Most of them also favored popular election of state governors.