Example sentences of "for re-election " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1984 opinion polls showed that Ronald Reagan would have been decisively defeated had he been running for re-election in Britain . |
| 2 | WHEN Mr William O'Neill , the governor of Connecticut , announced on March 20th that he would not run for re-election , he gave two reasons . |
| 3 | Michel Noir , the dashing young mayor of Lyons , and Michèle Barzach , an ex-minister of health and a former protégée of Jacques Chirac , the RPR leader , are standing for re-election as independents against official RPR candidates . |
| 4 | Mr Noir , Mrs Barzach and a third rebel RPR deputy , Jean-Michel Dubernard ( who is standing for re-election against Mr Noir 's son-in-law in Lyons ) , claim they have no desire to form a new party , despite their launch this week of a glossy 35-page ‘ Contract for a New Democracy ’ , which bears all the hallmarks of a party manifesto . |
| 5 | Such a result would mean one of the largest-ever Labour intakes , with at least 120 new faces joining the 206 Labour MPs standing for re-election — most of whom are confident of winning . |
| 6 | Mr Canavan , who is fighting for re-election as MP for Falkirk West and has been a prominent member of PLCND , said : ‘ I have always been proud to be a member of CND and will continue to campaign vigorously for unilateral nuclear disarmament within the Labour Party . |
| 7 | After nine years as Opposition leader , Mr Kinnock , 50 , is expected to announce on Monday that he will not put his name forward for re-election at the party 's annual conference . |
| 8 | The reshuffle was made easier by the decision of John Wakeham , formerly Energy Secretary , not to stand for re-election . |
| 9 | The speed at which McCarthy gathered support stunned America and had the campuses screaming with delight , especially when , on 31 March , their arch-enemy Lyndon B. Johnson announced he would not stand for re-election . |
| 10 | After thanking the committee for their work during the year , Mr. King announced that John Edelsten , John Sayer and Eddie Bryant would not be standing for re-election . |
| 11 | FORMER chairman Rex Williams , Mark Wildman and veteran Australian Eddie Charlton yersterday all failed in their bids for re-election to the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association board . |
| 12 | see that the society returned to sane management , and elected only business men who would look after the society 's interests first , and seeing that the present majority favoured representation by socialists only , they should be fought one by one as they appeared for re-election , until the confidence of the membership , at present abused and outraged , was restored , and the society stood for co-operation pure and simple . |
| 13 | The Director who retires by rotation is Mr F. Cox who , being eligible , offers himself for re-election . |
| 14 | The following executive posts are vacant : Vice President : June Ross , eligible for re-election ; Secretary : J. Leftley , demits office ( John Morrison nominated ) ; Treasurer ; Dugald Mackie , eligible for re-election . |
| 15 | The following executive posts are vacant : Vice President : June Ross , eligible for re-election ; Secretary : J. Leftley , demits office ( John Morrison nominated ) ; Treasurer ; Dugald Mackie , eligible for re-election . |
| 16 | Yesterday 's disclosure — less than a week before the Republican convention — stunned Americans who have seen Mr Bush struggle in his bid for re-election . |
| 17 | George Bush yesterday drafted in Secretary of State James Baker to bolster his flagging bid for re-election . |
| 18 | The move follows the party 's constant refusal to let him stand for re-election as a Labour county councillor for Harwich , a decision which led to Mr Knight 's resignation from public life . |
| 19 | Mr Knight said in a statement he would now be standing for re-election to Essex County Council as a Community Representative . |
| 20 | A TORY county councillor will not be standing for re-election next month because he fears his business affairs could lead to his disqualification from office . |
| 21 | He replaces Berndt Schultz , the Fair 's founder , who did not stand for re-election . |
| 22 | Up for re-election in 1952 , he was looking around for a cause that would be electorally popular , and found it in anti-communism . |
| 23 | Reluctantly , Johnson accepted their advice , and on 31 March 1968 he made a dramatic appearance on nationwide television to announce a fresh peace initiative , the reduction of bombing raids on North Vietnam , and his decision not to stand for re-election in November . |
| 24 | It had occurred because of an obsessive concern over the possibility that the President 's bid for re-election might just possibly fail . |
| 25 | Was up for re-election in May this year , nineteen ninety two . |
| 26 | One third of the councillors in each of three consecutive years are up for re-election . |
| 27 | That is , just as a county council in eighty five , all the councillors are up for re-election just as in a parliamentary general election , yeah ? |
| 28 | European leaders who had feared since Korea that America 's relentless anti-Communism would end in disaster gave Johnson little support and he did not stand for re-election in 1968 . |
| 29 | It affects us all and its practitioners do not come up for re-election every five years . |
| 30 | The director who retires by rotation is Mr J E Smith who , being eligible , offers himself for re-election . |