Example collocations logo

Elections in sentence

2988 examples of Elections in a sentence

In subsequent elections, Merkel refused to campaign on substantive policy matters.
Abbas’ presidential term has expired, and elections are constantly being postponed.
Elections Without WinnersWhen football matches – at least those that must produce a winner – end in a draw, a penalty shoot-out must resolve the matter, as this World Cup has demonstrated so dramatically.
But when it comes to elections – which ideally should always produce a winner – there is no such device.
Yet quite a few recent elections have ended in at least a near-stalemate.
Why are we suddenly experiencing so many close results in democratic elections?
The threat to globalism seems to have waned in Europe, with populist candidates having lost elections in Austria, the Netherlands, and now Germany.
But a populist turn in upcoming elections in either France or Italy could still tear apart the European Union, causing massive collateral damage to the rest of the world.
Only a few months after Rabin’s murder his Labor Party, badly crippled by the assassination, lost the 1996 elections.
He was beginning to support the idea of Russia becoming a parliamentary, not a presidential, republic and was gaining influence ahead of this year's Duma elections.
Such a maneuver, Lou mused aloud, would be economically painful enough to influence US elections.
In calling for early elections, originally scheduled for 1998, he had hoped to obtain a new confirmation of the mandate of his prime minister, Alain Juppe, who has been beset by ever harsher critiques.
But then he had won the elections and enjoyed a free hand in all matters except foreign policy and defense, with respect to which the Constitution obliged him to take into account the views of the President.
In 2013, it ordered new elections that changed the political balance, with the Nepali Congress emerging as the largest party and forming a coalition government with the Communists.
Yet today the ANC stands accused of both fecklessness and moral decay, and it suffered unprecedented losses to the opposition Democratic Alliance in urban areas in local elections in 2016.
Of course, Russia’s formal institutions of democracy remain in place; but, in the absence of a free press, an independent judiciary and free elections in the regions – where Kremlin cronies, like Ramzan Kadyrov in Chechnya, now hold sway – they have been hollowed out.
Bhutto’s contacts with Mushararf’s military government drew criticism, but she remained adamant that a return to democracy was possible only through a transition in which Musharraf would give up his military post, become a civilian head of state, and conduct free and fair elections.
One lesson than can be drawn from these data is the potential value of social media, which, despite being constrained in many countries during elections, remains a potent tool to facilitate youth political engagement.
For example, by creatively using social media to collect, collate, and amplify young people’s priorities in the Kenyan elections, Jiactivate helped spur their interest in politics.
They believe that free and fair elections represent their best chance of having a competent leader – someone like Patten, China’s former nemesis, who is remembered fondly in Hong Kong.
Because of its poverty, its complexity, and its vastness (even national elections have to be held over the course of several weeks, to accommodate hundreds of millions of voters), the uptake of market reforms has been gradual, but also remarkably resilient to shocks.
Today's government won a strong mandate in last autumn's elections, giving it several years to deepen and widen reform.
That, however, was out of the question: the AKP benefited from the rules put in place for the 2002 and 2007 general elections, in both cases converting pluralities of the popular vote into large parliamentary majorities.
In 2007, the AKP government briefly seemed interested in a new constitution, having weathered threats of a military coup just before the elections.
Many Europeans feel all three candidates are superb, and that, contrast to previous elections, America is suffering from an embarrassment of riches.
Last month, parliamentary elections dealt a mortal blow to Tudjmans' monolithic party, HDZ.
As a rule, German presidential elections are highly charged events, because they can be an early indicator of emerging new political majorities.
State elections this spring will show whether the FDP maneuver lifts the party above the 5% electoral threshold needed to remain in parliament, or whether fear of certain death led them to political suicide.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), for example, just held its first elections in 40 years.
Either the Round will fail outright, or some parts of it will be salvaged, with the rest (most of the areas under negotiation) put to one side amid promises to return to them after the 2012 elections in the United States.
BackNext