Sentence examples for scripted election from inspiring English sources

In a brief address afterward, he touched themes he had embraced since Mr. Putin selected him as his successor late last year and as he was shepherded through a scripted election.

Indeed it is arguably the first unscripted and risky moment of a pretty scripted election, and may yet be critical to its outcome.

With the conventions becoming more scripted each election, forestalling major drama or surprise, the three major commercial networks intend to interrupt their regular schedules from 10 to 11 o'clock on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights of the Democratic convention and the same hours from Tuesday through Thursday for the Republican convention.

When did Britain switch from an election scripted by the advertising guru Charles Saatchi to one painted by Salvador Dali?

While Mr. McCain has shown in the primary season that he can speak on the record for hundreds of hours without making gaffes, such media access can drive candidates off their messages in the tightly scripted world of a general election campaign.

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Elections were so thoroughly scripted for the media (television, especially) that post-mortems lacked any hint of revelation.

His 1996 re-election campaign became just as scripted, controlled and gauzy as Mr. Reagan's.

Special elections would appear to be scripted for a television audience.

In a format that is unusual for German election campaigns, which tend to be scripted and repetitive, he has hit the road with a strategy called "plain talk," in which citizens sit around him as he fields their written questions — filtered through a moderator but not obviously prepared.

And like most general election campaigns, the events are carefully scripted and the interaction with the public is meticulously controlled in order to avoid any potentially damaging missteps.