Example sentences of "[adj] election [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three main opposition groups in Yugoslavia united yesterday to contest Slovenia 's first free elections scheduled for next March , Tanjug news agency reported . |
| 2 | Three main opposition groups in Yugoslavia 's united yesterday to contest Slovenia 's first free elections scheduled for next March , Tanjug news agency reported . |
| 3 | Parliament yesterday confounded widespread predictions that it would wind itself up ahead of the Warsaw Pact 's first free elections scheduled for the spring . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the announcement that the NSF would contest the free elections scheduled for April was greeted with consternation in many quarters , opponents depicting it as a ploy by communists to retain control of the country . |
| 5 | In Phnom Penh she will have discussions with development workers to assess the situation in the country in the run-up to democratic elections scheduled for May 23 to May 28 . |
| 6 | Regional and municipal elections planned for Dec. 6 were held as scheduled and passed off without incident , despite the shadow cast over them by the Nov. 27 abortive military coup , the second attempt during 1992 [ see p. 39185 ] . |
| 7 | Local government officials on June 23 condemned as " unconstitutional " a decision by Fujimori on June 14 to postpone municipal elections set for Nov. 8 until , possibly , March 1993 . |
| 8 | During July and August the East German coalition government led by Lothar de Maizière of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) came under increasing pressure , especially over differences concerning procedures for unification and for the all-German elections scheduled for Dec. 2 . |
| 9 | Mass anti-government rallies were organized in Constantine and Algiers by the Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) on Nov. 2 and 9 , during which FIS leaders warned the government against postponing the country 's first multiparty national parliamentary elections scheduled for early 1991 . |
| 10 | The report also speculated that the move might prove to be a political asset for the ruling Golkar grouping ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for June 9 , 1992 . |
| 11 | Leszek Balcerowicz , the Finance Minister and deputy Prime Minister , announced on Aug. 5 that he would resign after the parliamentary elections planned for October , saying that his decision had been made for family reasons . |
| 12 | The four opposition parties announced on Nov. 13 that they were withdrawing from the parliamentary elections set for Dec. 8 in protest at the failure of their demand for a new voters ' register . |
| 13 | Its leaders called for a postponement of the multiparty elections scheduled for Feb. 10 , 1991 , on the grounds that they would not have sufficient time to organize a campaign , but this demand was immediately rejected by the government . |
| 14 | On Feb. 22 Alia dismissed the government of Prime Minister Adil Carcani , and appointed a provisional government to hold office until the multiparty elections scheduled for the end of March . |
| 15 | Entitled the UN Operation for Mozambique ( Onumoz ) , the plan called for 7,500 UN troops to disarm an estimated 100,000 soldiers from the armies of the government and the MNR , and for the integration of portions of the two forces into a national army , as well as for the organization of multiparty elections scheduled for October 1993 . |
| 16 | Nigeria 's two political parties , the National Republican Convention and the Social Democratic Party , held congresses throughout the country on June 15 to select delegates for primary elections scheduled for Aug. 24 . |
| 17 | The Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) and the centrist Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) announced on April 10 that they had reached an electoral accord providing for a system of " primaries " for the presidential elections scheduled for 1995 and for " common candidates " in regional and legislative elections scheduled for 1992 and 1993 respectively . |
| 18 | As a result a further five political parties decided to withdraw from legislative elections scheduled for Jan. 26 , bringing the number of parties boycotting the elections to 21 . |
| 19 | President Paul Biya confirmed on Feb. 7 that legislative elections scheduled for Feb. 16 would now take place on March 1 ; this postponement — a concessionary gesture to opposition groups who wanted the polls deferred until May — was not , however , sufficient to end opposition threats to boycott the elections . |
| 20 | The Rally of the Guinean People , the Guinean Party of Progress and the Union for the New Republic announced on Oct. 8 the formation of an opposition alliance , the Front for Struggle and for Government ; the main aim of the front was to press for the postponement of legislative elections scheduled for November , in order that a national conference could be held beforehand . |
| 21 | On Sept. 30 , two days before start of the last session of the National Assembly before the legislative elections scheduled for March 1993 , the government of Prime Minister Pierre Bérégovoy published its draft 1993 budget , predicting a record deficit of F165,400 million ( about US$33,000 million ) . |
| 22 | Five opposition parties lodged a joint request on Feb. 10 for the postponement of the legislative elections planned for March 6 ; this , they said , would enable the revision of electoral lists and constituency boundaries to prevent a recurrence of what they claimed had been massive fraud in the January presidential elections [ see pp. 38709-10 ] . |
| 23 | So the general election called for July is cancelled . |
| 24 | Elections for the Kuwaiti Chamber of Commerce and Industry on May 25 were seen as an indicator of the likely outcome of the general election planned for the following October [ see p. 38789 ] . |
| 25 | The Provisional Electoral Council ( CEP ) on Sept. 1 postponed to an unspecified date the general election scheduled for Nov. 4. 1990 . |
| 26 | It was felt that his return would bolster the prospects of an alliance of secular opposition parties led by Ben Bella 's Movement for Democracy in Algeria ( MDA ) in the general election scheduled for March 1991 . |
| 27 | The FIS was also demanding that presidential elections be held simultaneously with or follow shortly after the general election scheduled for June 27 . |
| 28 | The central committee of Likud , the main party of the right-wing ruling coalition , convened on March 1-2 to elect a ranked list of 50 candidates for the general election scheduled for June 23 . |
| 29 | The government described the timing of his planned visit as " inopportune " in the run-up to the general election scheduled for Sept. 27 . |
| 30 | The multiparty general election scheduled for Nov. 20 was postponed until Dec. 18 by a presidential decree of Oct. 17 . |