Sentence examples for solemn election from inspiring English sources
This would raise tax revenue by euro6.9 billion (say, that figure in dollars) and new borrowing by euro2.6 billion next year despite solemn election pledges to do neither of these.
Voters, on this model, approach the election as a solemn choice between the specific policies offered by each party.
The primate of Numidia, Secundus of Tigisi, who had acquired in the previous 40 years the right of consecrating the bishop of Carthage, arrived in Carthage with 70 bishops and in solemn council declared Caecilian's election invalid.
The bulk of what gets served up at election time are solemn advertisements full of serious voices telling us how everything the other lot do is wrong and how everyone on the other side is bad.
During a visit to the Royal Bolton Hospital, the Labour leader said Mr Cameron had made "solemn promises" at the last election: "No going back to waiting for hours on end in A&E.
France is in a difficult election phase The solemn declaration by President Hollande in Versailles at a joint meeting of the House of Representatives and the Senate took place only a few weeks before the regional elections.
While there was much talk of peace and reunification four years ago, the political elite have repeatedly broken their solemn promise to organise presidential elections that can move the country forward.
"For the first time in 24 years, the winner of an election has made a solemn and reiterated commitment to end political exploitation of TVE by the ruling party," said Jesús Ceberio, editor of the left-of-center daily El País.
"Deeply disappointed that Julia Gillard chose to hold the election on Yom Kippur — the most solemn and sacred day of the Jewish year," he wrote on Twitter.
A sejm began with a solemn mass, a verification of deputies mandates, and election of the Marshal of the Sejm (also known as the Speaker).
"The Republicans show enormous disrespect to the 9/11 victims and families by playing election year politics with something as solemn as the fifth anniversary of 9/11," she said in 2006.
