Sentence examples for tense election from inspiring English sources

AFTER a long and tense election campaign, it was all over surprisingly quickly.

He has built up a seemingly unassailable lead in tallies of votes cast in a tense election held on May 10th.

AS PRIME MINISTER Viktor Orban prepares for a tense election next year, our correspondents ask whether the country's opposition parties stand a chance of wresting back power.

Here, after a long and tense election, is the ceremonial opening of the political season that should herald a new beginning and a grand programme of action.

The intervention in Tikrit, a densely Sunni Arab area near Saddam Hussein's home village, occurred during an increasingly tense election campaign that has heightened fears of politically tinged violence.

President John Atta Mills, who took office a year ago after a tense election won by less than half a percentage point, inherited a fiscal deficit of 14.5%, almost two-thirds more than the previous year's.

That, he predicted, would result in "very tense elections".

Many ministerial posts remain unfilled, four months after tense elections.

The country has endured a series of tense elections and terrorism threats which have deterred tourists and this means most locals are happy to greet foreigners, often with curious questions and a genuine interest in their home culture.

The National Independent Electoral Commission reported late Monday that preliminary results showed Alpha Conde had won Guinea's tense presidential election.

They all safeguard their turf and, as Jamaica's tense national election looms in 1976, "remind people how to vote".