Sentence examples for surprising election from inspiring English sources

Since President-elect Donald Trump's surprising election victory this month, financial markets have sent a forceful message that the era of super-low interest rates is coming to a close.

For James Fields's surprising election by an almost entirely white electorate is not unique to Cullman.

It was until recently stricken by a surprising election defeat in 2004.

Officials at the Bank of Japan said the resignation rumors were strongly suggestive of a plot by the Finance Ministry to take advantage of the vigorous political ferment that has followed Mr. Koizumi's surprising election.

"I haven't seen such a surprising election in the last 30 years," said Fernando Tuesta, political scientist and pollster at Lima's La Catolica University.

What follows is a list of these losers made winners by the most surprising election in modern times.

The Senate dealt a surprising election-year rebuke on Wednesday to the White House goal of new tax cuts as it narrowly backed a new rule to require at least 60 votes to approve any tax cuts in the next five years.

It's been a quiet year, with only one of the most surprising elections in living memory to distract us from Brexit, the Grenfell Tower fire and the Westminster sex abuse scandal, to name just a few of the year's biggest news events.

This botched result ought not to be surprising; the election of 1796 had been the first contested Presidential election in American history (in 1788 and again in 1792, Washington had run unopposed), and the Electoral College did not easily accommodate the developing two-party system.

Following the no less surprising Czech election, the political air in central Europe has rarely smelled fresher.

It was the first such high-level meeting between China and India since China alarmed potential adversaries by testing an anti-satellite missile last month.In a surprising presidential election in Turkmenistan, Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov won only 89% of the vote.