Sentence examples for the common election from inspiring English sources

Later in 1859, Heliade returned to Bucharest, which had become the capital of the United Principalities after the common election of Alexandru Ioan Cuza and later that of an internationally recognized Principality of Romania.

Sunday is the most common election day around the world, according to Victoria Shineman, an assistant professor in the University of Pittsburgh political science department.

We must demand that politicians deliver on their rhetoric of greater executive accountability to parliament by strengthening the powers of both the Commons (is election by PR and the prospect of coalition government really such a bad thing?) and Lords.

In the Commons, an election was called in a hurry, and the April budget was abandoned in favour of a "ways and means" budget, agreed by both parties, that merely allowed the government to continue to collect taxes until the formation of the next government – which was where Thatcher came in.

Polls in Scotland used routinely to find fewer voters saying they would vote for the SNP in a Commons election than they would in one to the Edinburgh parliament.

Uniting all of the chapters is the common conviction that elections provide a unique vantage point from which to view the American political system.

Other issues we won't hear about in this election: The common perception that prison rape is part of the punishment that comes with a felony conviction.

For the last seven years, the UK has had prime ministers (Gordon Brown, David Cameron) who failed to win general elections and the common prediction is that next year's general election is likely to result in a third unelected PM in succession.

It lost the mainly Kurdish city of Van to the Democratic Society Party (DTP), whose strident Kurdish nationalist message trumped Mr Erdogan's talk of the common bond of Islam.The elections were a triumph for Turkey's shaky democracy.

The Falconer bill passed unanimously in the House of Lords, but failed to reach the Commons before the election.

However, instead of increasing its presence in the Commons through the election, the Conservatives lost their legislative majority, falling to 318 seats.