Sentence examples for sober election from inspiring English sources

Of the inside candidates, Mr. Todd has drawn praise for his sober election analysis.

Roy Jenkins, a Labour chancellor of the exchequer, bravely tried to break the mould in 1970 with a sober, "non-election" budget.

The idea was to ignore the circus of the Republican Presidential primaries, which was sure to push the candidates into making reckless statements, and instead to have waiting at the end of the process a sober general-election platform that the Republican nominee could embrace.

"I WAS able to overcome the first obstacle" was Junichiro Koizumi's sober take on his election victory on July 29th.

By contrast, Ed Miliband ought to be encouraged that his party has reacted in a sensibly sober way to these elections.

The election was sobering and reveals powerful trends, but it scarcely discloses new iron laws of history or proves that the Democrats are incapable of recovering.

Clinton has talked about installing half a billion solar panels, halting oil drilling in the Arctic and, in sobering evidence of this election's debasement, proudly told the Democratic national convention: "I believe in science".

"Clearly, we have been sobered by three special election losses in a row," said Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas, chairman of the group of more than 100 Republican lawmakers.

It sounds great, a civic virtue right up there with honest elections and sober driving.

His take on the Election is sobering in that he points out that had Hillary Clinton won we might have continued our illusion (those of us who consider ourselves liberals or progressives) that things were alright, when international aggressions, global warming, racism and corporate domination are and would have been still overwhelmingly present.

The lesson that other countries take from Hungary's financial shenanigans is that it is possible to spend like crazy to win an election and then sober up afterwards.That will change when global conditions make growth a hard scrabble, rather than a bonanza, and borrowing money means dealing with flinty-eyed sceptics, not rosy-eyed thrill-seekers.