Example sentences of "[num] election " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enrile , 66 , a former Defence Minister in the Aquino government , had played a crucial role in forcing President Marcos from office after his 1986 election defeat by Aquino [ see pp. 34297-302 ] . |
| 2 | Since the 1986 election ( when the DLP won 24 of the then 27 seats ) support for Sandiford had declined . |
| 3 | The election result , which reversed that of the December 1986 election when the PNM won only three seats to the NAR 's 33 [ see pp. 35194-95 ] , represented an emphatic rejection of Robinson 's handling of an economy heavily dependent on oil exports . |
| 4 | Under the system of proportional representation used in the 1986 election , his party managed to win 35 parliamentary seats with just under 10 per cent of the vote . |
| 5 | Indira Gandhi swept the 1971 election crying ‘ Garibi hatao ’ — end poverty — and Indians , still poor , feel cheated . |
| 6 | That Forster and the local Nazis knew as much is evidenced by the fact that the 1935 election was the dirtiest and most dubious of the Danzig NSDAP 's victories . |
| 7 | On the one occasion when they did , in the run-up to the 1935 Election , it was — as we shall see — the peace movement that was agitating for a policy of resistance to aggression , and the Government that was forced by public opinion to suspend its deeply unpopular policy of appeasement — until the Election was safely out of the way . |
| 8 | ‘ There is no doubt ’ , wrote an LNU MP of his constituents during the 1935 Election campaign , that ‘ they 're quite prepared for the Navy to have to fight . ’ |
| 9 | After the 1935 election , the LNU , aware of its potential as the biggest non-party organization in Britain , edged towards a more direct political challenge to the Government . |
| 10 | Attlee , had he won the 1935 election , would have taken exactly Baldwin 's line in substance , but at that stage in his career would have done so without assurance or persuasiveness . |
| 11 | Labour lost the 1935 election because of its confusion over foreign policy , just as it had lost in 1931 because of its domestic failure . |
| 12 | But his personality — assertive and brash yet essentially both cheerful and tough — gradually communicated itself to the public and helped him to his greatest triumph : his victory in the 1948 election . |
| 13 | Domestic politics and the Jewish vote — with the approach of the 1948 election — were influential . |
| 14 | The 1980 election , in other words , is to be seen primarily as a referendum on Jimmy Carter 's stewardship during the previous four years . |
| 15 | How is the 1980 election to be interpreted ? |
| 16 | As the 1980 election approached , advisers like Martin Anderson set about incorporating Reagan 's idea into a coherent economic strategy . |
| 17 | For a start , the Democratic leadership capitulated rather easily ; the 1980 election results appeared to frighten them into cooperation with the president . |
| 18 | According to a member of the Speaker 's staff , the Democrats felt that they should ‘ recognize the cataclysmic nature of the 1980 election results . |
| 19 | In his memoirs he rightly insists that the 1980 election ‘ did not represent a revolution in American values . |
| 20 | On the other hand , the Democrats still held the House and the 1980 election result was at best ambiguous , representing neither a vote for conservatism nor for liberalism . |
| 21 | Senate and House committees were re-examining the 1980 election for evidence of that rogue Iranian factor mentioned earlier . |
| 22 | Numerous problems arose after the 1980 election to ensure the demise of Schmidt and the SPD . |
| 23 | The Greens had grown only slowly in importance since the 1960s and they won less than 2 per cent of votes in the 1980 election . |
| 24 | As the 1972 election drew near , the Nixon administration could point to some genuine success in calming the passions of the Johnson years . |
| 25 | Referring to the 1972 election , Nixon said : " This is war … |
| 26 | In the 1972 election the Ngwane National Liberation Congress ( NNLC ) won three seats , and this modest revival in nationalist fortunes so disturbed Sobhuza that he promptly abrogated the constitution and for the next six years ruled by decree through the national council , a traditional body of tribal advisers . |
| 27 | Although as the largest parliamentary party the CEDA might have expected to dominate government after the November 1933 election , this was ruled out by the President of the Republic , Alcalá Zamora , on grounds of the CEDA 's non-republicanism . |
| 28 | On the Spanish left the period between the November 1933 election and the end of 1935 became known as the bienio negro , the ‘ two black years ’ , during which the reforms of 1931–3 were reversed or flouted , socio-economic power reverted sharply to landlords and employers , the left itself experienced unprecedented repression and the seeds of civil war were decisively sown . |
| 29 | Prospects for a free and fair general election , scheduled for late 1991 , improved when opposition parties agreed in late April to respect electoral procedures , in return for a government promise to consider the reform of the election commission [ for December 1985 election see p. 34162 ] . |
| 30 | One view saw Suharto 's motive in encouraging greater activism on the part of Golkar as an attempt to acquire a reforming image to help counteract pressure on him to stand down before the 1993 election . |