Sentence examples for pair of election from inspiring English sources

Up until the end of last week, there were widespread concerns among American and European diplomats, whose countries bankroll the Afghan government and security forces, that a pair of election laws crucial to next year's vote would not be passed before Parliament adjourned for the summer.

Over the weekend at Def Con, the annual hacker convention in Las Vegas to discuss some of the latest and greatest (or scariest) trends in the wild world of hacking, a pair of election security hacking demonstrations set up for adults and kids alike offered up some frightening revelations about America's voting infrastructure.

But the low turnout may have been prompted more by ballot fatigue than anything else: the Sunday vote, which included the election of town and neighborhood legislative councils, was the seventh in two years, including a pair of presidential elections and a series of votes to draw up and approve a new Constitution.

Regarding Stevenson, who lost to Dwight D. Eisenhower twice in 1952 and 1956 (in the last pair of consecutive elections to feature the same candidates for both parties), Larry Bartels, a political scientist at Vanderbilt University, collected data that tracks presidential voting by whites without college degrees in elections from 1952 to 1980.

After mismanaging the country into fiscal ruin, two endless wars, and a pair of landslide elections rejecting their rule, yesterday the Republican leadership urged their members to oppose Obama's stimulus plan before they'd even heard the man out.

Furthermore, after a pair of two-stage elections spanning almost two months, "the French are victims of a kind of civic exhaustion," he said.

After $6 billion, two dozen presidential primary election days, a pair of national conventions, four general election debates, hundreds of Congressional contests and more television advertisements than anyone would ever want to watch, the two major political parties in America essentially fought to a standstill.

He honestly believes his popularity will be heading in a northerly direction as more people hear and see him on the hustings and recognise "the safe pair of hands in this election.

So the DPJ had a lot riding on a pair of lower-house by-elections on April 24th, one in the south-western city of Fukuoka, the other in Miyagi, up north.

While the eyes of the nation focused on Wisconsin, where Gov. Scott Walker brushed back a recall attempt by critics of his move to strip most public-sector unions of their collective bargaining rights, a pair of less noticed local elections Tuesday in California could have more immediate ramifications for struggling state and local governments and for organized labor.

In 1999, she represented a pair of individuals whose published election-related literature was challenged.