Sentence examples for using elections from inspiring English sources

In Sunday's Los Angeles Times, Sharansky makes that implicit criticism of Bush's foreign policy explicit and states his opposition to the president's policy of using elections as the litmus test for a free society.

Eusebio Mujal-Leon, of Georgetown University in Washington, says it may be learning a warped version of democracy from its socialist ally in Venezuela, convincing itself that it can remain an autocracy while using elections to stay in power.

Last year Bush described Sharansky's "The Case for Democracy" as the book that "summarizes how I feel" about foreign policy, despite the fact that in the book Sharansky opposes using elections as the "true test of democracy" and argues that holding elections too quickly can undermine a country's democratic transition.

— DAVID CARR On Election Night, "coattails" can also mean a marketer's trying to get noticed by using election language in ads.

Using election counterfactuals and applying spatial voting theory, we examine these arguments.

We use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the causal effect of incumbency using election data from Ireland's system of proportional representation with a single transferable vote (PR-STV).

After arguing that citizen participation is inextricably linked to good urban governance, a process by which to build and evaluate relevant indicators is developed, using election data from Greater Vancouver.

Authoritarian regimes often have used elections as a way to achieve a degree of popular legitimacy.

They used elections to monopolize power, denigrate adversaries and solidify ties with Islamist hard-liners.

Al-Qaeda has used elections before to stage some of their most horrific attacks, such as in Spain in 2004.

Whether the Brotherhood is truly democratic or merely keen to use elections to establish a religious dictatorship is a topic of perennial debate.