Sentence examples for weekend election from inspiring English sources

Much of today was spent taping interviews for weekend election wrap-ups on television.

The timing of the announcement on martial law added to speculation that the generals might retain control beyond the scheduled handing over of power after the weekend election.

But over the weekend, election officials across the state, nearing the end of their sprint and trying to anticipate every glitch, prepared furiously for Tuesday.

Hong Kong's weekend "election" comes against a backdrop of growing cultural antagonism with mainlanders to the north who increasingly hold political, and financial, sway over the territory.

Lithuania's president vetoed a proposed coalition government on Monday, saying that one of the three parties involved stood accused of serious voter fraud in a weekend election and was therefore unfit to govern.

DAKAR, Senegal — Amid violent protests from his main opponent's supporters, President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria was returned to office after a weekend election judged by analysts to be perhaps the country's fairest ever.

Divisions between French and Flemish speakers were at the root of the crisis that prompted the weekend elections.

A report from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said the weekend elections were handled in a "professional, transparent and inclusive" manner.

President Karolos Papoulias asked Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis to form a government, after the governing conservative New Democracy Party won close weekend elections.

The government lost its majority in the Senate in weekend elections, reducing its chances of deciding who will succeed President Vaclav Havel when his term ends in January.

Overall the FTSE 100 is currently 19.07 points higher at 6123.18, with investors seemingly unconcerned about Alex Tsipras' victory in the weekend elections in Greece.