Sentence examples for winner of a general from inspiring English sources

Under Italy's constitution, the president - a largely ceremonial appointment by MPs -must invite the winner of a general election to form a government, which is then put to a confidence vote in both houses of parliament.

Even the greatest of winners needed a general manager to do something very smart — or dumb — to help them along.

The winner of the general classification received a grand prize of 5,325 lire.

In terms of species-specific responses of raptors to habitat degradation, a rapid process of homogenization can be expected, resulting in only a few winner species within a general scenario of losers.

26 April: Mayoral election: Catherine Pugh, who was prominent on the streets during the protests, wins the Democratic mayoral primary, which generally decides the winner of the general election in deeply Democratic Baltimore.

Since 1987, the winner of the general election has always won the preliminary by a substantial margin except once, when Acting Mayor Tom Menino took 27percentt of the vote against the combined total of 46percentt for his opponents in 1993.

The Democratic Unionist Party has ruled itself out of a possible Westminster coalition government if there is no clear winner of the general election.

"In my lifetime, I have seen two elections where the winner of the general election did not win the popular vote," Boxer said in a statement.

Four years later, Burris ran for governor a third time, finishing third in the primary, behind the eventual winner of the general election, Rod Blagojevich.

In deep-blue Massachusetts, he is also perceived as the most likely winner of the general election in June.

In the past it was as symbol and co-founder of Burma's biggest party, and as the unhonoured winner of the general election.