Sentence examples for idea of election from inspiring English sources

One attitude concerns the governing idea of election.

Mr. Simpson ridiculed the idea of election officials "describing to a most curious American public the difference between the hanging, swinging, dimpled, pimpled, pregnant, clinging, dangling" punch holes of the ballots and said the spectacle was "absolutely absurd".

"The idea of elections is mad," says Cedric Barnes of the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think-tank.

Many Shia clerics, including those returning from Iran, endorse the idea of elections, albeit with an Islamic flavour.

He had also become less critical of the idea of elections, saying at one point that elections are "not blasphemous".

I did not go into the Koran and the prophetic tradition to derive the idea of elections.

While a number of MPs are open to the idea of elections, some say they will still not serve in the shadow cabinet.

"The whole idea of elections is you're supposed to have a real choice and real competition," said Wayne Johnson, a Republican campaign consultant.

It's bold to publicly criticize the idea of elections as goal No. 1 of U.S. policy efforts in newly freed countries.

Corbyn's supporters are open to the idea of elections as a means of making peace with MPs, and have appointed a member of staff to try to persuade politicians to return.

Corbyn's supporters are open to the idea of elections as a means of making peace with MPs, and have appointed a member of staff who has been charged with trying to persuade politicians to return.