Sentence examples for ruinous election from inspiring English sources

THE chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has rattled a chunk of Kenya's political establishment by formally demanding that some of its most powerful people be summoned to The Hague to answer for crimes against humanity after a ruinous election at the end of 2007.

The former miner who now leads America's largest union body, the AFL-CIO, describes George Bush's legacy as: "stolen elections, ruinous tax cuts for the rich, dishonest wars, financial scandal, government-sponsored torture, flooded cities and, finally, economic collapse".

There hardly could be a clearer case of a violently stolen election, a ruinous dictator and a responsible opposition willing to compromise and accept less than the clear victory it won at the polls.

What is clear is that Obama believed in 2008 that on this issue he should not be a leader, that the price of getting too far ahead of the majority of the country would be politically ruinous and lead to the election of a conservative Republican who would be far worse, not only on gay issues but on much else besides.

Certainly, officials in Tanzania will have to rethink their plans for the highway, despite its being economically important for Tanzanians, if it will somehow be more ruinous to Kenyans than widespread rioting and murder sprees after every tainted election.

But some had hoped that the presidential election on Sunday February 7th might bring an end to the ruinous political turmoil of their country, whoever turned out to be the winner.

Hillary's assertion about Democratic presidents is a calculated election year sound bite that ignores the consequences of her husband's ruinous trade legacy.

A8 Assurances on Livestock Virus Prime Minister Tony Blair said Britain was in the home stretch of its effort to contain a ruinous epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease, prompting widespread forecasts that early next week he would call a general election for June.

The protesters, on the other hand, want to derail the election and rid Thailand of the influence of the Shinawatras, whom they accuse of rapacious corruption and ruinous populism.

Prime Minister Tony Blair said today that Britain was in the home stretch of its race to contain a ruinous epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease, prompting widespread forecasts that early next week he would call a June general election.

Joyce Banda, the Malawian leader, lost the elections in her country this year partially because, in return for development aid, she was forced to introduce ruinous IMF reforms, which included devaluation of the currency and abolishing subsidies for the vulnerable and help for farmers, unleashing widespread popular anger.