Sentence examples for permanent election from inspiring English sources

This does not mean flapping up and down the country running a permanent election campaign.

Canada is in a permanent election campaign.Yet polls suggest that Canadians, still grappling with the after-effects of recession, do not want another election.

After a cataract operation in 1962, as he lay bedridden for two weeks with pads taped over his eyes, he had a eureka experience: he suddenly visualized "a computer card in an inexpensive holder with a permanent election 'book' premarked with candidates and issues".

But at the last moment Mr Abdullah decided that he could not take part.Related items Afghanistan's bloody election: An election under siegeOct 29th 2009 Afghanistan's permanent election: Seconds out, round twoOct 22nd 2009Throughout the turmoil of recent weeks hopes had remained that the election process might run through to a conclusion.

Second, to describe in as much detail as possible the actual processes of Roman politics – the permanent election campaigns, annual polls, law courts, senate meetings, public assemblies, the interlinked political class – but to do so in such a way that they felt entirely natural, and were taken for granted by the reader, so that the overall effect would be of a kind of West Wing-on-the-Tiber Wing-on-the-Tiber Wing-on-the-Tiber Wing-on-the-Tiber

Even in Congress, honest politicians decry the "permanent election" mentality which causes them to spend more time raising money for the next go-round than actually doing the job they've been sent to Washington to do.

The permanent re-election campaign happened: members of Congress now regard Capitol Hill as a place they drop by on breaks from fund-raising and town meetings, so that instead of forging constructive relationships, Congress is often about striking poses.

Historians of Congress will tell you that these "Gang of" workarounds -- which have become more common in the years since public service became a permanent re-election campaign -- have often failed to achieve critical mass or been sabotaged by partisans who saw no advantage in sharing a victory.

The interim constitution is supposed to include a bill of rights, details of a federalist governing structure for Iraq, a mechanism for judicial review and a timetable for the drafting of a permanent constitution and elections under that constitution.

This collective hysteria has made election fever permanent and has serious consequences for the workings of democracy.

That's how Barack Obama described the experience of being a leader under permanent scrutiny in an election campaign (according to Richard Wolffe, in his book Renegade).