Sentence examples for partial election from inspiring English sources

He also said he "welcomed the partial election results".

Iran's powerful guardian council began the partial election recount today but has offered to recount only 10% of the votes.

"A partial election will put the country into chaos," said Tariq al-Hashmi, the secretary general of the Iraqi Islamic Party.

Partial election results show Mr. Karzai leading other contenders, but allegations of fraud threaten to add to the credibility problems facing a second Karzai-led government.

Coming next, in late March, is a partial election for the upper house of parliament, the Rajya Sabha, where Congress is weak.

The Shiites and Kurds make up 75 to 80percentt of the population, and even if the partial election plan never materializes, the prospect of an alliance between the two groups is terrifying to many Sunnis.

Two years later partial elections gave the republicans control of the Senate, and Mac-Mahon shortly found an excuse to resign.

Public apprehension over election fraud arose following partial elections in June to fill 88 seats in the 264-seat Shura (consultative) Council, the upper house of the parliament.

But partial elections, American officials said, would further alienate the Sunnis, who are already generating most of the violence against the Americans and their Iraqi allies.

After a long series of twists and turns, of pseudo-questionnaires and meaningless polls, nothing has been granted except partial elections for posts that have become naturally vacant.

The DPP's Chiou I-jen, secretary-general to the president, Chen Shui-bian, suggests that, in time, another similarity may become evident: that partial elections do not work.