Sentence examples for protracted election from inspiring English sources

The Central Election Commission declared Viktor A. Yushchenko, the opposition leader, the official president-elect, bringing the protracted election closer to an end.

Faced with a renewal of the protracted election battle, the initial reaction of investors was negative.

Gravel was the last Democrat to represent Alaska in Congress for 28 years, until Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich defeated Stevens, by now an aged, iconic figure who had just been convicted of seven felonies for taking unreported gifts, in a very close and protracted election result in mid-November mid-November 2008

The concession by Mr. Keita's opponent, Soumalia Cissé, allows Mali to avoid a protracted election fight and to move ahead with establishing a democratically elected government, one of the conditions international donors have set for the distribution of $4 billion in promised aid.

She said the protracted election cycle demonstrated that "the people of South Ossetia have overcome their fear".

This was the year of two big developments in Iraq: the major reduction in American combat forces and a protracted election in which voting in March was followed by a nine-month delay in forming a new government.

Just before the first tranche of protracted elections took place in November, the square was barricaded by tens of thousands of protesters and gun-toting police.

For the United Steelworkers and for much of organized labor, the No. 1 legislative goal is the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would make it easier for workers to unionize – by giving employees at a worksite the right to unionize through majority sign-up rather than through an often contentious and protracted unionization election.

And given how protracted our election cycles have become, he may get his wish.

The election, protracted beyond reason, nears its final phase.One question is whether candidates this time are turning out to be any more attractive than last time.

[Page 32.] The possibility that voters will split as narrowly as in the protracted presidential election of 2000 is so strong that Republicans and Democrats alike have been assembling teams of election lawyers and bracing for a battle over the majority that they say could stretch beyond Election Day.