Sentence examples for unwise election from inspiring English sources

In doing so, Mr Martin was honouring an unwise election pledge.

The contrast with David Cameron's unwise election pledge is instructive: under pressure in the TV debates the Tory leader promised to protect pensioners' perks, winter fuel money and bus passes.

Edward Heath, a Conservative prime minister, was about to announce a markedly unwise election based around the question of "Who runs Britain?" He was tired, he said, of the trade unions having too much power and he wanted to settle the arguments between government and workers once and for all.

Bouteflika is by no means a Gaddafi, Ben Ali or Mubarak, but his decision to stand in what were described by his government as fair and free elections was unwise.

Speaking as a Christian and a lawyer, I can say that setting a religious test for the 2008 presidential election is both unwise and unconstitutional.

So I think, again, it was clearly unwise on the eve of the election in France.

This is unrealistic in an American presidential election year, but also unwise.

If he fails, he could entangle the US in an unwise and unwelcome war, and the election result is anybody's guess.

Granted, a general election campaign could shuffle judgments of electability, and it may be unwise — even offensive — to cast votes in part on how people with different political philosophies, even bigots, would cast their ballots.

Mr Maliki would be unwise to exclude them from the October elections.Despite the honeyed words of Arab leaders at the two recent regional conferences, the governments of neighbouring Arab countries are still wary of embracing Mr Maliki.

Dropping A-levels and GCSEs could be seen as unwise in the run-up to a general election.