Sentence examples for stage of election from inspiring English sources

But there is enough evidence for the survival of the preliminary stage of election to have encouraged a theory that the hybrid system continued in use down to the 4th century.

James Brooke (NYT) MIDDLE EAST EGYPT: MUBARAK PARTY GAINS President Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party appeared likely to maintain its overwhelming parliamentary majority, Egyptian state television reported after vote-counting in the first stage of elections.

Monitors from the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights ODIHRR), part of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), identified "serious problems" at all stages of election day, particularly vote-counting (where elections can be most easily falsified).

Traceable to the expansion of markets for media commodities, this special feature of politics that has now occupied the centre-stage of election campaigns in different parts of the world has leaders constantly performing their defiance, anger, or hurt on behalf of a constituency.

Significant problems were observed throughout all stages of election day processes," the OSCE wrote.

As the debate stage of the election began, Biden participated in the first presidential debate of the election on April 26 , 2007in South Carolina.

He was 10 to 15 points behind Gingrich at this stage of the election.

We're still very much in a very broad, thematic, formative stage of the election".

The University of Michigan index of consumer sentiment is the highest it has been at this stage of the election cycle.

A splashy news event in the final stage of an election campaign deliberately designed to swing it one way.

While polls at this stage of an election can be unreliable indicators of the outcome in the fall, they underscore that the race is likely to be close.