Sentence examples for secret elections from inspiring English sources

The law guarantees freedom of speech for union members and periodic secret elections of union leaders.

The conference chairman manages the secret elections of floor leaders, distributes committee assignments and sets policy priorities.

It was a position that gave him the rare opportunity of voting in three conclaves, the secret elections by which popes are chosen.

To what extent the Communist regime will eventually be tolerated by its opponents, whose number has been put at 50 to 75% (meaning that that proportion would vote against the Communists were free and secret elections to be held), will depend on the success or failure of the Five-Year-Plan.

Your Sept. 19 editorial "The Secret Election" describes the most recent iteration of the "win at any cost" behavior that now marks our electoral process.

Plays golf!" Bloom accuses Ukip's leader of pursuing an "Ein Führer" leadership policy and a "No-policy" policy agenda, and claims Farage has already struck a secret election deal with the Tories in return for a seat in the Lords.

So much so that, when the UK's first secret election was held in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, people complained it had taken all of the life out of it.

But while Citizens United was the trigger for the explosion in dark money, there's nothing about the decision that protects secret election spending.

"Until Bush v. Gore, election administration was the dirty little secret of elections," she said, referring to the Supreme Court decision that delivered the 2000 election to George W. Bush after poorly run elections in Florida.

The problem with that argument is that workplace secret ballot elections do not in any way resemble elections for our local, state, or federal elected officials.

Its final report was agreed overwhelmingly and recommended better public engagement, cross-house secret ballot elections of select committee chairs, intraparty secret ballot elections of select committee members and back bench control over so-called "non-government business".