Sentence examples for wretched election from inspiring English sources

But gridlock 2011 in a world and a country that needs leadership but can't get it (with another wretched election just over the horizon)?

Certainly, in this last wretched election cycle -- what with the Todd Akins, Richard Mourdocks and sundry other precambrians -- we know that millions of Americans can only seem to take the idea of "secretaries" as, say, women answering phones for men to bring in a little extra family money.

HE MAY not feel it on the eve of what is likely to be a wretched mid-term election for his party, but Barack Obama is a lucky man.

"POPULAR disillusionment with the usefulness of the whole regime" was one of President Muhammad Khatami's explanations for the wretched turnout in Iran's local elections on February 28th.

"I felt more wretched after the referendum than after the election.

Almost three years ago, on a day of great jubilation, the citizens of the wretched island nation of Haiti lived their own Election Day Myth.

"And now let's take this wretched country," he wrote on Twitter after the elections.

Many of his cronies will also now have more time for their cows: 14 ministers lost their seats to Mr Kibaki's National Rainbow Coalition (Narc), leaving KANU, Kenya's ruling party since independence in 1963, with a wretched 60-odd seats out of 210.It was a relatively good election.

Some Sunni Arabs and Baathists, who are now sidelined, think that direct elections might bring them back into the fold a wretched prospect for the Iraqis inside the Americans' circle of power, especially the former exiles who make up the bulk of the Governing Council.

Might the Freedomites now consider abandoning the governing coalition, so depriving Mr Schüssel of the chancellorship The demagogic Mr Haider, whose party won 27% of the national vote and 29% in Styria in the general election a year ago, immediately blamed Mr Schüssel's lot for his party's wretched showing.

As long as he remains leader, there is nothing that wretched Labour candidates can plausibly say on the doorstep at next month's European elections.