Sentence examples for rather than election from inspiring English sources

And that for once, in a referendum rather than election situation, every single vote counts.

It is questionable whether appointment rather than election to the Senate carries reliable political dividends.

The president, however, views things differently; rather than election triumphs, he remembers the humiliations that befell his first cabinet.

At polling stations around Baghdad it was clear that army officers rather than election officials were in charge.

A system that absorbs about one-seventh of our gross domestic product needs immediate attention rather than election posturing.

Through the police, Raziq controls the ballot-distribution system in Kandahar, and in many rural polling sites his force, rather than election authorities, will collect the ballots.

For the past 40 years, bribery and corruption, rather than elections, were the life-blood of Irish politics.

The Iraqis favor the immediate formation of a provisional government, made up of the current Iraqi Governing Council, rather than elections.

But determined donors with clever lawyers have long found ways round the limit, largely by spending money through groups that are notionally independent of any campaign and concerned with "issues" rather than elections.

The Election Process in Iraq The Bush administration decision to set up one nationwide vote for a new national assembly in Iraq, rather than elections by districts and provinces, has come back to haunt officials.

But the attitude that Arab society is best served by strongmen rather than elections was not limited to American policy-makers.