In the elections of 1864 the Republicans and Union Democrats united, and after an exciting campaign they were successful.
And the private soldiers were more enraged by the result of the French elections than their generals--even than General Augereau, who was tigerish in his wrath.
Had not Marshall interfered, it seems certain that the Disputed Elections Bill would have become a law.
New England elections where personal solicitation is the Death-warrant to success"; but it was "not only pardonable but necessary .
Illustration: Statue of John Marshall By Randolph Rogers] The party leaders labored hard and long with Marshall while the Disputed Elections Bill was before the House.
In these elections the French liberals, who were not in the army, did not vote; while all conservatives, who wished above all things for a stable and orderly government of law and for peace with other countries, flocked to the polls.
I wish to converse with General Marshall and yourself on the elections which must soon come.
The Virginia congressional elections have astonished every one," he informs Tench Coxe.
When the congressional elections of 1794 came on, all complaints against the National Government were vivified by that burning question.
The French elections of 1797 had given to the conservatives a majority in the National Assembly, and the Directory was in danger.
Such was the public temper in Virginia, as accurately if bombastically expressed by the youthful Thompson, when the elections for the Legislature of 1795 were held.
Pinckney was absurdly accused of interfering in the elections in behalf of the "Royalist Conspiracy.
Besides being a bond of union and mutual protection, it entitles its possessor to a vote at the elections of the aldermen and the common council of the ward.
There is no difficulty for men in college to understand elections and government.
But the motive which leads to elections here leads to elections in the State.
At the Paris Municipal Elections a huge majority of Nationalists and "Anti-Semites" were returned.
He spoke about the generalelections which had just taken place.
He has been one of the very first advocates of an alliance with Russia, he has assisted the cause of Boulanger; he was elected a deputy at the electionslast May.
Thank Heaven, the elections had shown that the Republican majority was against Dreyfus and his supporters.
We do not hear of elections that cost two hundred thousand pounds.
Those who have seen much of the evils of elections will probably incline to long Parliaments; those who have seen little or nothing of these evils will probably incline to a short term.
Touching the expense ofelections I will say a few words, because that part of the subject has not, I think, received so much attention as it deserves.
We have seen Ministers driven from office by this House, Parliament dissolved in anger, general elections of unprecedented turbulence, debates of unprecedented interest.
Everybody knows that the Villele ministry was overthrown by the elections of 1826.
The public mind having thus received an impetus in this new direction, it was manifest, of course, that the coming elections would be contested.
Faggot-votes were chiefly used in county elections for members of Parliament.
The pro-Germans had carried all before them at the last Greek elections (Dec.
The Montagu-Chelmsford reforms have been put in operation, and the first elections under them were held at the beginning of 1921.
The very light vote cast at the elections revealed the effect of the non-co-operation movement, which showed itself in countless other ways, from strikes in factories to strikes of school-children.
It gave the Indian opposition greatly increased opportunities for advice, criticism, and debate, and it initiated a restricted scheme of elections to the legislative bodies which it established.
There have been other elections in which war issues were linked with the decisions, but in a less direct way.
Orderliness at the ordinary elections is expected here, without calling upon women to act as "moral police" at the polls.
It may be that it is competent for the Legislature to provide that women who are citizens of the United States and over twenty-one may vote at elections held for school directors and other school officers not mentioned in the Constitution.
The school electionsin Staten Island last year gave an object- lesson in regard to its intention to use the suffrage.
Each of them could point to the tangible evidence of victorious elections and votes of confidence.
The first elections for the House of Commons took place during the months of August and September, the practice of holding elections all on one day having not yet come into vogue.
Of the candidates in these elections but four opposed federation and only two of them were elected.
I find the country in a sound state,' wrote Sir John Macdonald during the general elections of 1872, 'the only rock ahead being that infernal Scott murder case, about which the Orangemen have quite lost their heads.
During 1864 there had been elections in eleven ridings for the Assembly and in fourteen for the Legislative Council.
By-elections followed and supporters of federation were returned.
The general elections were impending, and everything turned upon the verdict of the country.
Especially since those elections are not only more frequent than in the states named, but are also conducted without expense.
But this dissenting movement collapsed upon itself before theelections in November.
A modified form of suffrage in local or school elections had been allowed in many States.
The congressional elections of 1862 showed that he was still far from success.
The prevailing system for conducting elections made it easy for the purchaser of votes to see that he got value for his money.
A Force Bill, placing the control of Southern elections in federal hands was considered.
In so far as it affects the qualifications of voters at national elections (i.
The question of prescribing the qualifications of voters in such elections was much debated in the Convention which framed the Constitution.
In so far, however, as the amendment imposes woman suffrage on the states in elections of state and local officials the situation is entirely different.
No argument is necessary to demonstrate that the regulation of the suffrage in national elections is or may be a matter of national concern.
But the custom claimed by our governors is against the very fundamental constitutions both of all civil societies and of several Acts of Parliament, which ordain that all elections shall be free, chiefly 3 of Ed.
We are all hoping that New York and other States declared against the Republicans, at the elections in the United States, on Tuesday last.
Grant probably furloughed many of his men to vote in Pennsylvania and Ohio, on Tuesday last--elections preliminary to the Presidential election--and they have had time to return to their regiments.
And some few of our influential great men might be disposed to favor reconstruction of the Union on the basis of the Democratic party which has just carried the elections in the North.
It seems, from recent Northern papers received in this city, that the elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana have gone against the Abolitionists.
They refer to the then approaching elections in the North, and lay some stress on the anticipated change in public opinion.
The elections in Ohio and Pennsylvania have gone for the Republican (War) candidates.
It was used as a campaign document during the canvass prior to the elections of the 17th of September, and was replied to by the Hon.
Even during his student days he had taken a keen interest in the political questions of the times, and had worked hard at the local elections on the Liberal side.
A short time afterwards the Returning Officer was censured by the Committee on Privileges and Elections for his partisan conduct in the matter.
At the general local elections held on the 5th of June following Mr. Morris was again returned for East Toronto--of which he had in the interval become a resident--by a majority of 57 over the Hon.
This seat he continued to hold until the Union of the Provinces, when at the general elections which followed the formation of the Dominion he was elected by acclamation to both the Commons of Canada and the Assembly of Quebec.
His eligibility was proved at the general elections of 1857, when he was returned to the Assembly by the constituency of West York, in which he had resided for many years.
At the general elections of 1842 the Reform Party made a determined stand on the question of Responsible Government.
That his Ministers were culpable, as well as unwise, in advising the prorogation, is certain; and when the next elections came on they paid the penalty of their disingenuousness.
And when their chieftains were dead their sons or next heirs did not succeed them, but their tanists, who were elective, and purchased their elections by show of hands.
The new premier was sworn into office under the same conditions as surrounded his predecessor: his was merely a service cabinet, to maintain control until the elections could be held in accordance with the constitution.
What gave further color to the reports that Greece was definitely deciding to go over to the Allies was the announcement that the elections had been postponed indefinitely.
When the elections under the new Act were announced, Mr Redmond, honestly enough, proceeded to give effect to his promise.
Such a declaration was all that the Irish Nationalist Party could have expected at that moment and it enabled them to give their full support at the elections to the Liberal Party.
O'Connor tells us that this declaration was "all that the Irish Nationalist Party could have expected," and that it enabled them "to give their full support at the elections to the Liberal Party.
An extraordinary session of twenty days was held in January, 1905, to reconsider the Elections Bill, rejected by the Legislative Council in December previously.
Of these the Elections Consolidating Act was important.
The law relating to parliamentaryelections was consolidated and amended.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elections" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
