Sentence examples for lackluster election from inspiring English sources

This pressure became the focal issue in an otherwise lackluster election campaign.

Last Thursday's televised party leaders' debate--the first in British history--injected new energy into a lackluster election campaign.

More than a victory or defeat for any party, experts said the lackluster election was a rebuke to the government of Mr. Tung.

Still, by basing the short and lackluster election campaign primarily on her own personal appeal, analysts said, Mrs. Merkel appears to have further weakened her party base — which was not very strong in the first place.

While Italian pollsters explore the subtleties of voter sentiment that led to Silvio Berlusconi's lackluster European election results, the conservative prime minister has offered an easier explanation.

Efforts to introduce some drama, or comedy, into the somewhat lackluster Israeli election campaign, in the form of satirical television ads for two parties at opposite ends of the political spectrum, have been stifled by the country's Central Election Committee, which deemed them too offensive to broadcast.

Qatar's ruler undertook this agenda-shifting move apparently to try to build bridges between the increasingly separate Gaza and West Bank Palestinian leaderships, which have become even more evident after lackluster, polarized local elections last weekend.

Some in the national media have described this critical, important election as "lackluster".

The ruling party, United Russia, lost 77 seats in the Dec. 4 elections despite lackluster competition, and domestic and international observers say that even that result was inflated by fraud.

Richa Poudyal, legislative affairs director for the CU Student Government, said local races can seem lackluster compared to national elections, so many students just aren't as interested in voting this year -- or they don't know enough about the issues or candidates to feel like they're casting an informed ballot.

The election capped a lackluster primary campaign that was snubbed by most of the city's 1.8 million voters.