Example sentences of "the [adj] election " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Labour lost the 1935 election because of its confusion over foreign policy , just as it had lost in 1931 because of its domestic failure . |
| 7 | But dozens of representatives shouted ‘ Yes ’ when he recalled the European election campaign and asked them : ‘ Can any of us say in all honesty that we did everything we could ? ’ |
| 8 | I remember in eighty four erm there 'd been a general election in eighty three erm there 'd been one third elections in Harlow in , in , in erm i i i in eighty three , there was er a gen the general election and another system of election by thirds in eighty four and then the European election being told by one el elderly lady that there were too many bleeding elections and therefore she was n't gon na vote . |
| 9 | Erm the European election 's next year , Europe , the issue . |
| 10 | The distribution of portfolios reflected the dominant role of Kohl 's Christian Democrat Union ( CDU ) , but also the strong election performance of the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) , which now held five portfolios ( including that of the nominally independent Justice Minister ) rather than four as previously . |
| 11 | Indira Gandhi swept the 1971 election crying ‘ Garibi hatao ’ — end poverty — and Indians , still poor , feel cheated . |
| 12 | The 1980 election , in other words , is to be seen primarily as a referendum on Jimmy Carter 's stewardship during the previous four years . |
| 13 | How is the 1980 election to be interpreted ? |
| 14 | As the 1980 election approached , advisers like Martin Anderson set about incorporating Reagan 's idea into a coherent economic strategy . |
| 15 | For a start , the Democratic leadership capitulated rather easily ; the 1980 election results appeared to frighten them into cooperation with the president . |
| 16 | According to a member of the Speaker 's staff , the Democrats felt that they should ‘ recognize the cataclysmic nature of the 1980 election results . |
| 17 | In his memoirs he rightly insists that the 1980 election ‘ did not represent a revolution in American values . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Senate and House committees were re-examining the 1980 election for evidence of that rogue Iranian factor mentioned earlier . |
| 20 | Numerous problems arose after the 1980 election to ensure the demise of Schmidt and the SPD . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Iranian election is seen as an opportunity for President Rafsanjani to strengthen his pragmatic policy of seeking an accommodation with the West to restore Iran 's economy . |
| 23 | He has faced the toughest election of any Tory chairman for 20 years , while spending the afternoons dashing to Bath to defend his own marginal seat against a strong Liberal Democrat challenge . |
| 24 | Since the 1986 election ( when the DLP won 24 of the then 27 seats ) support for Sandiford had declined . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On current trends the party will be lucky to get a fifth of the vote at the non-racial election now less than a year away ( the tentative date is April 1994 ) . |
| 27 | A Labour Party activist fell 80 feet to his death from Longroyd railway viaduct at Huddersfield , West Yorks , after watching the Labour election defeat on television , an inquest was told yesterday . |
| 28 | If the Labour Election Programme is to be any use it must have something concrete and definite about unemployment . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Domestic politics and the Jewish vote — with the approach of the 1948 election — were influential . |