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Election   /ɪlˈɛkʃən/   Listen
Election

noun
1.
A vote to select the winner of a position or political office.
2.
The act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice.
3.
The status or fact of being elected.
4.
The predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists).



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"Election" Quotes from Famous Books



... Republican majority of thirty-nine in the House and two in the Senate. The President had followed the practice of European premiers in appealing to the people, but under our constitutional system he could not very well resign. Had he not issued his appeal, the election would have been regarded as a repudiation of the Democratic Congress, but not necessarily as a repudiation of the President. The situation was most unfortunate, but the President made no comments and soon after announced his intention of going to Paris. In ...
— From Isolation to Leadership, Revised - A Review of American Foreign Policy • John Holladay Latane
... depressed seventies because it now meant to them primarily currency inflation and a rise of prices and, consequently, industrial prosperity—not the phantastic scheme of the National Labor Union. Yet in the Presidential election of 1876 the Greenback party candidate, Peter Cooper, the well known manufacturer and philanthropist, drew only a poor 100,000, which came practically from the rural districts only. It was not until the great strikes of 1877 had brought in their train ...
— A History of Trade Unionism in the United States • Selig Perlman
... presume I have a vote with regard to the election of members, I certainly do not wish for ...
— Wild Kitty • L. T. Meade
... This election was very displeasing to some of the proud Saxon lords; and Cendric, the father of Wilfrid, had been among those who conspired with a wicked traitor of the name of Alfred, to take away the life of Athelstane. The conspiracy was discovered, and all who were engaged in it were ...
— The Children's Portion • Various
... ceremony was just on the point of taking place. The minister, who thought he perceived in such a critical arrival the work of fate, immediately waited on the now supposed prince, whom he invited to be present at the election; at the same time informing him that when in this kingdom a sultan died without issue, the laws appointed that his successor should be chosen by the alighting of a bird on his shoulder, which bird would be let fly among the crowd assembled in the square before ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments vol. 4 • Anon.


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