Sentence examples for so much elections from inspiring English sources

Under Putin, Russian Presidential elections are not so much elections as they are periodic opportunities for the President to reassert his power.

If its critics were only politicians from the Democratic Party, such allegations could be dismissed as just so much election-year mud being slung at Dick Cheney the firm's boss before becoming George Bush's vice-president.

Are they going to blackmail us, too?" To the mayor of Newark, Sharpe James, and other Democratic officials there, such talk and the sudden gush of Republican opposition to the arena plan in the Assembly are so much election-year bluster.

When it comes to misinformation, there's only so much election officials can do, he said.

He added, though, that its "future doesn't depend so much on elections as on the relationship between the president and the prime minister".

There may be some bumps in the road along the way, but as long as the military doesn't decide it likes running the country so much that elections aren't going to happen, then things will likely turn out fairly well from this arrangement.

The campaign this year is not so much an election as a re-election.

It was not so much an election victory for him as a defeat for Heath.

As Ammar Siamwalla, a prominent local economist, puts it, next week's vote is not so much an election as a referendum on Mr Thaksin.

It is not so much an election – everyone knows the result after all – it is more like a head count of government supporters.

The differences between the approved candidates (with the exception of Hassan Rowhani and Mohammad-Reza Aref) are insignificant, and that this is not so much an election by the people as it is a selection by Ayatollah Khamenei.