Sentence examples for picked election from inspiring English sources

Facebook picked election evening in the U.S. to release a major report on its role in Myanmar, where it is widely accused of failing to prevent its social network from being used to incite genocide.

The two sets of responses were indistinguishable from each other: seventy-one per cent of the time, the children picked the election winner to pilot the boat.

Every month or so, I will be picking an election somewhere in the world, or occasionally a referendum: we're choosing mainly presidential elections for the time being because they're simple to explain.

A young official named Ezatullah spent seven hours in a minibus traveling 50 miles to pick up election materials.

Helicopters and planes have been dispatched to pick up election officials from all corners of Kenya, from the Indian Ocean coastline to the arid deserts of the north.

Pick an election and the candidate you support, and Votizen gives you a list of friends who support that party and are eligible to vote in the race.

"His by-election picked up the Liberal Party from the disastrous 1970 election when we had only six seats, and started our recovery.

The assembly that writes Iraq's new constitution will be picked by direct election next year, when conditions will be easier, with luck.But not by luck alone.

The number of directly elected members rose from 20 in 1998 to 30 in 2004, whereas those picked by the election committee went from ten to nothing.

When the liberal Web site Daily Kos, enmeshed in the rough-and-tumble of the presidential election, picked up on the news in a highly read post, commenters were quick to raise the specter of dirty tricks.

The actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the leading Republican candidate in the California recall election, picked up the endorsement today of the California Chamber of Commerce, while a panel of federal judges in San Jose turned down one of the last legal challenges to the Oct. 7 vote.