Sentence examples for responsibility for elections from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bush, careful to avoid committing himself to any specific recommendation, said he supported four broad goals: keeping the primary responsibility for elections with the states; limiting the role of the federal government to helping states with technology; enforcing voting rights; and upholding the voting rights of members of the armed services.

He is, he said, simply trying to juggle the full-time demands of running a police department with the added full-time responsibility for election planning.

But it was accompanied by a confusing change that gives what was the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) responsibility for local elections but leaves local electoral authorities in place as well.

And, of course, local government's responsibility for running elections can be seen to lie at the heart of the country's democratic system.

The party, though careful to protect him from having to take full responsibility for an election, wanted him, at the very least, to increase the party's showing in a major state election or two.

On Sunday, Mr. Kan took responsibility for the election setback but said he would stay on as prime minister.

"What is important in the decision is to have a clear framework," says Antonio Monteiro, the UN official with special responsibility for the election.

For their part, the news executives walked a thin line between taking responsibility for the election-night debacle and seething under the surface at having to testify before Congress under oath on a subject that they asserted was strictly a journalistic matter.

The party was relegated to obscurity thereafter--decried as spoilers who bear responsibility for the election of George W. Bush and everything that followed.

Hoar replied that the people were both a less permanent and a less trusted body than state legislatures, and that moving the responsibility for the election of senators to them would see it passing into the hands of a body that "[lasted] but a day" before changing.

Finally, the responsibility for running city elections would move to the county, with an unknown price tag per election.