Sentence examples for half elections from inspiring English sources
Normally the upper house only has half elections, with senators elected for six-year terms.
I've got to say, given the fact that we've gone through a year and a half election season, I'm really glad today that we made that choice.
The victory of a Democrat in the Senate election was not assured, because in recent decades the Republicans had won about half the elections for governor and senator.
Organized labor is losing about half the elections in which workers vote on whether to unionize largely because many corporations mount aggressive and expensive campaigns that urge workers not to join unions.
In contrast, only one in three Americans has confidence in our national government and the country's leadership; fewer than half regard elections as honest; and three-quarters of the population sees widespread corruption in government.
"In the last parliament there were eight crossbenchers, six of whom had been newly elected at the 2013 half Senate election.
The preselection took place before the double dissolution so it applied to a half Senate election.
16 Never mind if he spent half the election campaign battling rumours that he was a closet Muslim.
He helped ensure a peaceful end to Communist rule, in 1989, by sending his colleague Tadeusz Mazowiecki to negotiate half-free elections with the tottering regime.
When Whitlam visited Kerr to call for a half Senate election, Kerr instead withdrew his commission as prime minister and replaced him with the Liberal leader Malcolm Fraser.
