Example sentences of "[prep] the elections in " in BNC.

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1 The situation had been compounded during the elections in the previous month when the Nationalist had taken seventy-three seats out of a total of one hundred and five , and out of those , forty-two of those elected were in jail for various offences related to their opposition of the British presence in Ireland .
2 A mechanised battalion from the 5th Division based at Fort Polk , Louisiana , they had been deployed in Panama since Gen Noriega 's suppression of the elections in May .
3 Kohl , who initially opposed either a rapid currency union or negotiation with the existing East German government , announced on Feb. 6 his readiness " to open immediate negotiations on economic and monetary union " in advance of the elections in East Germany on March 18 [ see p. 37172 ] .
4 The results of the elections in Melilla and Pontevedra would not affect the government 's majority .
5 A special UN body , the UN Observers for the Verification of the Elections in Nicaragua ( ONUVEN ) , began work on Aug. 25 .
6 All-India Radio reported on May 15 that the Assam government had invoked the National Security Act ( NSA ) for three months " as a precautionary measure " in view of the elections in the state in June .
7 At some of the elections in the spring there were anti-Whig demonstrations , such as at Newcastle , where crowds burnt the Bill of Exclusion and Shaftesbury 's Association .
8 We will hopefully be informing people about Oxford against the Poll Tax , which is you know very important at this time with Poll Tax bills being sent out next week and it will be hoping to basically raise the profile of the campaign with the elections in mind .
9 The newly formed Yukon Party led by John Ostashek emerged from the elections in the Yukon Territory on Oct. 19 as the largest single party .
10 The United Nations has installed a peacekeeping force to maintain order until the elections in May 1993 .
11 PAV campaigned in the elections in coalition with the Independent Hungarian Initiative , a group of members of the Hungarian minority in southern Slovakia .
12 In the elections in 44 of the country 's 47 prefectures for prefectural and municipal assemblies the LDP won 1,543 seats , 161 more than in 1987 , and increased its share of the vote from 44.7 per cent to 46.6 per cent .
13 It was expected to improve Kim 's prospects in his bid for the presidency in the elections in late 1992 or early 1993 , by expanding his area of support , traditionally based in south-western Cholla province , to include Lee 's power base in Kyongsang in the south-east .
14 During the run-up to the elections in 1990 the SPD candidate , Oskar Lafontaine , gave high priority to the withdrawal of NATO troops from German soil , and even the Christian Democratic government allowed doubts to creep in about the level of their commitment to NATO when they refused to modernise their short-range nuclear missiles in 1989 .
15 If you 're interested in standing for any of those or wan na put someone forward to stand for one of those , come to the elections in room six two three , six two four Friday the twenty sixth at two fifteen twenty third , I 'm sorry , at two fifteen and er not only will you get all the , the general info about what I 've done so far this year , what I intend to do , what next year 's budget 's going to be etcetera , that 's when those elections are actually held .
16 The participants called on enterprises not to increase prices in the run-up to the elections in order to prevent unrest .
17 In nineteen eighty nine , at the last European elections , Labour took forty five seats to the Conservatives thirty two and we are looking forward to the elections in June when the party opposite , ridden by divisions and disagreements , will suffer further loses and Labour , we hope , will make further gains .
18 At the elections in June 1990 , Mr Borja lost much of his congressional support , to fresh members who vie among themselves in opposition to the president .
19 At the elections in December 1990 the West German Greens failed to reach 5 per cent of the popular vote , which is required for representation in the Bundestag .
20 The whole operation was for Reagan 's sake , as well as the hostages ' ; it was a present for him , preferably one to be delivered by Christmas , or by the State of the Union address in January , or by the elections in November .
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