Sentence examples for is electioneering from inspiring English sources
noun
Campaigning for elective office on behalf of oneself or another candidate.
"Donor Names Stay Secret as Rules Shift" (front page, Sept. 21) suggested that Americans for Prosperity is electioneering and keeping our donors secret because of poor regulatory oversight and the Supreme Court's recent Citizens United decision.
The leader of Cardiff council says a no confidence bid in his leadership is "electioneering".
Fancy Farm is electioneering at its most basic: a mix of down-home handshaking, crowd-working and attempts to speak over the shouts and rhythmic chants of supporters and foes.
Her disdain for the gestures expected of a politician's wife meant her presence was sometimes a mixed blessing when the president was electioneering.
As president of a country made up of diasporas, it may not merely be electioneering that leads Obama to Offaly, but something deep and genuine.
When Rachida Dati, the most senior Muslim member of France's ruling UMP party, was electioneering in the Paris housing projects in 2007, she reprimanded a teenager for wearing a baseball cap back to front.
Still, the F.E.C. judged the movie, and promotions for it, to be "electioneering communications," intended to sway voters' behavior, whether or not they contained "vote" or "ballot" or other such "magic words".
Reports suggest the former prime minister will be electioneering in marginal seats on his own national tour after being snubbed of a proper campaign role in what is likely to be a 2 July double-dissolution election.
The appeals seek the justices' review of some 20 separate issues including, most prominently, the constitutionality of the law's restrictions on the use of "soft money" -- unlimited contributions -- by national and state political parties and the ban on the use of money from corporate and labor union treasuries for broadcast advertisements deemed to be "electioneering communications".
Moreover, at the time Gallomania was published, Disraeli was electioneering in High Wycombe in the Radical interest.
