Sentence examples for war election from inspiring English sources

Tensions over the party's direction rose as Lord Mandelson, the Blairite former cabinet minister, accused Ed Miliband of fighting a "class war" election.

Hardly what the Founders envisioned.Fred Barnes, of the (pro-war) Weekly Standard, on 06: This was, above all a war election.

The parties have so far been reluctant to spell out where the axe will fall: refusing to level with voters risks undermining trust, creating the sense of a "phoney war" election.

Constitutional Union Party, U.S. political party that sought in the pre-Civil War election of 1860 to rally support for the Union and the Constitution without regard to sectional issues.

Australia's longest serving prime minister and the Liberal party legend, Robert Menzies, is mentioned in the yet-to-be-implemented senior secondary modern history curriculum titled Australia, 1918 –1949 (End of first world war – election of Menzies).

Similarly, in the Civil War election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln survived a challenge by George B. McClellan, the Democratic nominee and the general Lincoln had fired the year before.

The first post-civil war elections were held in May 2002, with Kabbah winning reelection with a majority of the vote.

Though Mr. Galgut alludes to the passage of time and to current events — the end of apartheid, the gulf war, elections in Tanzania — these references serve mostly to establish the narrator's distance from time and history.

Newspapers are therefore filled with exceptional moments: earthquakes, war, elections, controversies, arguments, crises.

In the first post-war election in 1946, Beadle was decisively re-elected in Bulawayo North.

The UML and NC both expected to win the country's first post-war election last year.