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Example sentences for "contested election"

  • I proceeded with my haranguing, and those who were not in the secret actually began to be alarmed, for fear there should be a contested election, which they had by no means expected.

  • I set out boldly to walk down the high-street to the cathedral: I found it much more peopled than I intended, and, when I was quite embarked, discovered myself up to the ears in a contested election.

  • Whoever stands a contested election, and pays for his seat, and attends the first session, surely buys the other six very dear!

  • If, in the case of a contested election, the House revolted from the idea of submitting their judgment to facts substantiated by a committee, the case before us is of unspeakably greater magnitude.

  • Resolution on the consideration of all bills on a second reading in the Senate, 15; on contested election of Wm.

  • He left it to the consideration of the committee to determine on the immense importance of providing in season against the evils of a contested election, in the case now before them.

  • But there was, on the contrary, a contested election; Austria in again, as usual, and again unsuccessful.

  • It is a contested election, therefore rather troublesome and expensive, though not too expensive.

  • Greece and Italy would certainly do me immense good; but I fear I must give up that plan for the present year, since after a contested election it is a serious thing to spend money for amusement.


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