Sentence examples for partial elections from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

The Unite union's general secretary, Len McCluskey, said he believed there would be at least partial elections, as long as the leader had the power to sack MPs from their positions.

Shiite leaders are pushing a new plan for the transfer of power in Iraq that calls for partial elections, with balloting in the relatively secure Shiite and Kurdish areas but not in the more turbulent "Sunni triangle".

Britain declared that the rebate was "unnegotiable".Partial victoryFor the first time since 1989, Japan's opposition won partial elections for the upper house, with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party collecting only 49 of the 121 seats contested.

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.

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

The Justice and Development Party won a plurality of the vote, the first under the country's new Constitution, according to partial election returns announced by the government on Saturday.

Page 13 ISLAMISTS LEAD IN MOROCCO A moderate Islamist party appeared to have won the first election under Morocco's new Constitution, according to partial election returns announced by the government.