Sentence examples for sufficient to elect from inspiring English sources

The first public inkling that there might still be a serious contest for Hanna's Senate seat came the day after the November vote, when Governor Bushnell declared that the party's majority in the legislature was sufficient to elect a Republican as senator, but refrained from mentioning Hanna by name.

Most Section 2 litigation has concerned vote dilution, especially claims that a jurisdiction's redistricting plan or use of at-large/multimember elections prevents minority voters from casting sufficient votes to elect their preferred candidates.

The senators in those districts argue that theirs are "coalition districts," where no one ethnic or racial group has the majority, but where minorities have sufficient strength to elect the candidates of their choice.

But the New Jersey case turned on local political realities that appear to give blacks sufficient influence to elect a candidate of their own choosing even though they do not account for a majority of the new district's voters -- a situation that does not apply in other states.

By staking out a middle ground, he was able to develop a coalition sufficient to get elected for two terms as well as govern effectively even after his party had lost both houses of Congress.

Finally, it would be wrong to elect a leader without allowing sufficient time for a serious debate about what needs to change.

It requires 266 to elect.

But Americans Elect hasn't been sufficient to the task of putting any pulse in a Walker bid.

Much has been said and written in the past six months about Barack Obama's need to attract white voters in sufficient numbers to be elected, first in the primary (done) and now in the general election.

Given that the lung adenocarcinoma driver gene panel would not provide sufficient coverage, we elected to identify recurrently mutated genomic loci in an unbiased, genome-wide screen.

Although the Harvard apology wasn't sufficient to save his job, it did enable him to return to public life after Obama was elected.