Sentence examples for routine elections from inspiring English sources

The authors assure us that "the more routine elections become, the worse Islamic parties do in them".

Federal documents paint Cudahy as a place where bribes became routine, elections were fixed on Perez's orders, city workers acted as gun-packing bodyguards, and the city manager sent underlings to bring illegally obtained pain pills back to City Hall.

In Indonesia, a small city mayor called Joko Widodo has become, with ameliorative policies aimed at the urban poor (slum-dwellers, street vendors), the preferred alternative to a discredited breed of politicians -- mostly manipulators of party machineries -- that can no longer pass off routine elections as democracy.

But more routine election cases provide a map.

The candidates (there are also a few no-hopers) boom promises at them through loudspeakers: more development, less corruption, more action, less waste, and a better life for all.It looks like a routine election, but appearances deceive.

But in September, when the two groups met for the routine election of a third group, known as Group C, the board failed for the first time to reach a consensus.

But journalists say that under the new code, printing an interview with a candidate could be seen as favorable coverage, while investigating the track record of another could be interpreted as detrimental — meaning that routine election coverage could risk breaking the law.

And his routine election stealing has caused Western powers to impose harsh sanctions.

Court documents in the criminal cases revealed Cudahy as a place where bribes -- sometimes passed along in shoe boxes -- were routine, city elections were rigged and city workers served as armed bodyguards for council members.

The discrepancies were discovered in a routine post-election audit by the commission on how federal matching funds are spent.

Astride his horse at the Labor Day parade, Allen was pressed by a reporter about the political wisdom of his cowboy routine during election season.