Sentence examples for of landmark elections from inspiring English sources

The leader of the opposition National League for Democracy party is on a three-day visit to Rakhine ahead of landmark elections next month, billed as the country's first free and fair national vote after decades of military rule.

In the wake of landmark election victories for the marriage equality movement -- gay rights were affirmed in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington -- opponents are doubling down on the rhetoric that led to their defeats.

The arrests come less than a year after the Pacific island nation of 900,000 held landmark elections which many hoped would usher in a new era of stable democracy following years of political turmoil and a series of military coups.

In this season of another landmark election — a recent poll showed that about 62percentt of Americans believe the 2018 midterm elections are the most important midterms in their lifetime — it is natural to wonder if the public and private sectors have learned any lessons from the 2016 fiasco — and what is being done to better protect against this malfeasance by nation-state actors.

Ironically, this had all the makings of a landmark election for Bangalore.

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.

Over the weekend, democracy activists held a conference to discuss the future of the revolution in advance of landmark parliamentary elections planned for September.

BAGHDAD — After weeks of political wrangling and legal challenges, Iraq's highest court on Tuesday ratified the results of landmark parliamentary elections, removing a major obstacle to seating a new Parliament but leaving many frustrated that it had taken so long.

Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi and 42 other members of her party, the National League for Democracy, won seats in Parliament in landmark elections on April 1.

Sahr witnessed landmark elections in Nigeria and wants you to help encourage the trend in the Democratic Republic of Congo (fallingwhistles.com/freeandfair).

He believed that the U.N. would help organize landmark elections in 2004.