Sentence examples similar to preceding this election from inspiring English sources

This included those alarmed by the days of political street carnival preceding the election and those (not just men) put off by Mr. Moussavi's attention to the traditional, second-class role of women in this paternalistic quasi-theocracy.

Not a single journalist was harassed during the months preceding the election that June.

"The election will be competed for on the back of relatively strong economic growth, with GDP up at least 5% in the two years preceding the election.

Anyone who had been watching TV in the weeks preceding the election was suffering from fatigue, too, as well as frustration.

Maryland law requires gubernatorial candidates to have lived and been registered to vote in the state for five years immediately preceding the election.

The Democrats registered just under 100,000 new Nevadan voters in the year preceding the election, and there was an 81% turnout to the polls.

First, votes are affected by the state of the economy — mainly economic performance in the year or so preceding the election.

The political scientists I talk to basically have the view that nothing much matters in presidential elections except the rate of change in economic conditions — not the level — in the year or less preceding the election.

In contrast, the day preceding the election, known as the reflection day, shows a notable decrease in Twitter activity.

I joined in the days preceding the election, having been invited to the "secret group" by a friend's mom.

The U.S. District Court ruled in their favor and restored early voting on the three days preceding the election.