Sentence examples for fixed electoral from inspiring English sources

This was a man who once described a political opponent as "all tip and no iceberg"; in response to a question from the opposition leader as to why he refused to call an early election, a legitimate query in a country without fixed electoral terms, Keating replied: "Because, mate, I want to do you slowly".

The young Assad put stability first, believing, as the Middle East's monarchical leaders find it easy to believe, that there was no great hurry, let alone a fixed electoral term, to bring about change.Any Syrian change for the better whether it is more openness at home or less support for militant forces abroad needs the basis of a sounder American-Syrian relationship.

"If you fix electoral terms, it deprives the prime minster of that bonus," she says.

In recent weeks, Wolf has been publicising allegations of irregularities in the referendum, becoming a conduit for those who think they had their vote stolen from them by the long arms of the British state, which in some way fixed the electoral process.

Fixing the electoral system is by no means certain to fix Labour's fortunes.

It is accused of fixing the electoral districts in a way that privileges the party.

Graham Allen, the former chair of the defunct Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, said the Tory Government is "trying to fix the electoral system for its own party advantage".

The Australian system would be a direct response to poor turnout, rather than the gimmicks and fixes the electoral commission has tried, which have done more to reduce trust in the ballot.

Mr. Oh, who approved of Mr. Bush's economic proposals but liked Mr. Gore on social issues, said he would advise Mr. Bush to first try to appropriate money for fixing the electoral system.

It was under Syrian tutelage that the law had been fixed, creating broad electoral districts that tended to box Christians, who are allotted half of parliamentary seats, inside majority-Muslim areas.The Qatar deal provides for a return to an older electoral law that divides the country into smaller districts.

While the eyes of the world were fixed on a failed electoral putsch by the Far Right in mainland France, Corsican voters were quietly – unusually quietly for Corsica – making history.