Sentence examples for longstanding election from inspiring English sources
In each place, longstanding election rules were bent and even ignored.
Without Supreme Court review, state officials warn, the July ruling "threatens countless longstanding election laws" and "subjects the Texas Legislature to the ongoing charge of intentional racial discrimination".
In this fiercely waged election, longstanding barriers were challenged and toppled, at times to the seeming surprise of the person doing the toppling.
It would also raise from $1,000 to $2,000 each election the longstanding limit on how much an individual can give to Senate and presidential candidates.
One of Mr Mubarak's mooted reforms, it appears, will be to reduce the judiciary's longstanding role in supervising elections.
But another possible explanation cannot be ignored — the longstanding pattern of pre-election polls overstating support for black candidates among white voters, particularly white voters who are poor.
Tehran's rejection of the deal was likewise propelled by domestic politics — including last June's fraudulent elections and longstanding fears of Western manipulation.
Sir Graham Melmoth, who revived the Co-operative whenesale Society (CWS) when he ran it between 1997 and 2002, said he believed the current board was using the recent turmoil at the group as an excuse to exclude talented longstanding members from board elections.
But this week, the most powerful cleric in Iraqi, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, said he opposed the plan, sticking by a longstanding demand for direct elections of a new government -- a process likely to take longer because it would first require the complicated tasks of taking a census and drafting a constitution.
And if she can get the Democratic nomination, can she overcome her longstanding negatives in the general election?
Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, a Manhattan Democrat, said he thought the complications caused by the storm had reverberated throughout the election system, exacerbating longstanding problems.
