Sentence examples for of major elections from inspiring English sources

Propositions such as Prop 8, as it is known in California, are in effect carried by referendums - normally at the time of major elections - which allow laws or constitutional amendments to be passed by the direct vote of the people rather than through the legislature.

They won the bulk of major elections.

Hughes wasn't sure if they had, but guessed that in the next round of major elections, the Republicans will probably have a similar game plan.

I know how much of the media behave, and there would have been "Stressed and depressed Lib Dem chief quits" headlines in the middle of major elections.

This week it also emerged the company is extending some of its nascent election security measures by bringing in requirements for political advertisers to more international markets ahead of major elections in the coming months, such as checks that a political advertiser is located in the country.

Forging a career as a political consultant backing reform and reformers, Phil Noble worked against the arch-segregationist, Jesse Helms, in North Carolina, and he traveled to 40 foreign nations to consult with reform candidates in dozens of major elections.

It all started on 18 November, the day 180,000 party members voted to choose their new leader following a string of major election defeats – including that of former president Nicolas Sarkozy to his Socialist challenger François Hollande.

The timing of this campaign was clearly chosen as it was in the middle of major election campaigns, for which I was then responsible.

Denver's longtime TV talk-show host Aaron Harbor churned out an ambitious series of TV programming focusing on major election issues and candidates.

In one of the closest major elections in the island's history, Ms. Calderon, the mayor of San Juan and a member of the anti-statehood Popular Democratic Party, defeated Carlos Pesquera, a member of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party.

Ms. Gregoire beat Mr. Rossi by fewer than 200 votes last time — one of the closest major elections in American history — and the two are running neck and neck again as though time had stopped.