Sentence examples for of election with from inspiring English sources

Just missing the 75percentt of the ballots cast (429) required for election was Craig Biggio of the Houston Astros, who fell two votes shy of election with 74.8percentt in the balloting.

Chen, the former deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Bureau, did not mention that Hong Kong was a colony of election, with a population composed of refugees from the mainland, but instead criticised those who didn't "cast aside the colonial legacy" as "harming Hong Kong".

They cancelled the second round of elections, with catastrophic consequences.

The latter has suffered a blatant coup; the former has seen merely a series of elections with, ahem, irregularities.

You don't win a lot of elections with subtlety, but Romney seems to get called on it more frequently".

There is no doubt that Nick Clegg emerges from this week's round of elections with the deepest wounds.

More than 10,000 jurisdictions are involved in the administration of elections, with hundreds of thousands of Americans working to ensure that every vote counts.

After its victory the National Party rapidly consolidated its control over the state and in subsequent years won a series of elections with increased majorities.

The procurement proposal, Question No. 4, was put on the ballot by the same Charter Revision Commission that has recommended replacing the current system of elections with nonpartisan elections (Question No. 3).

The governor and his blue-ribbon panel must also replace New York City's inept, patronage-driven Board of Elections with a nonpartisan agency with civil servants in its work force.

Shortly after Ms. Eng voted for Bill Clinton, a group of Chinese-Americans approached the city's Board of Elections with a modest-sounding proposal: that voting machines include Chinese translations of the candidates' names in districts where many Chinese lived.