Sentence examples for landmark electoral from inspiring English sources

This makes it unlikely that the Democrats will face the embarrassing scenario of the architect of their landmark electoral victory being taken away by prosecutors on national television.

The school, L'Anse Creuse Middle School North, sits smack in Macomb County, a landmark bellwether electoral district northeast of Detroit where Reagan Democrats first emerged and were then coaxed back to the Democratic fold by Bill Clinton.

More recently, in terms of civil rights, the Supreme Court's vote to repeal a provision of the Voting Rights Act [a landmark civil rights-era electoral law designed to protect minority voters] is one of the paradoxes of progress.

But after he became President, Johnson risked everything, including his own office and the Democratic Party's electoral future, to pass the landmark bills for civil rights in 1964 and voting rights in 1965.

A week before the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear a landmark case on how officials can draw electoral maps, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said people felt discouraged from voting because of the way districts were redrawn, something that was bad for democracy.

More than two weeks after Afghanistan held a landmark run-off to elect a successor to Hamid Karzai, electoral authorities have said they want to delay any announcement by a week because of allegations of voter fraud.

More than two weeks after Afghanistan's landmark run-off to elect a successor to Hamid Karzai, electoral authorities have said they want to delay any announcement by a week due to allegations of voter fraud.

Yemenis turned out in force for a landmark election to choose a president and local council representatives, and the nation's electoral commission extended voting by two hours.

The Five Star Movement, which launched in 2009, has now achieved a landmark success among Western democracies by using the Internet to play a crucial role in the electoral process.

This paper will seek to put this political dimension of the law into sharp focus, specifically examining and analyzing the bureaucratic politics, personal politics, partisan politics, and electoral politics surrounding the Bureau of Chemistry in its attempts to administer, implement, and enforce the landmark Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Defying international observers and the country's own electoral commission, officials tied to President Laurent Gbagbo on Friday declared him the winner of a landmark election in this troubled West African nation, potentially setting the stage for the kind of violence and division that the long-awaited voting was supposed to prevent.