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Meanings of bye-election in английском

A special election between regular elections.

        Usage of bye-election in английском
        1
        Advice to those about to enter Parliament: Elect for a bye-election.
        Without Prejudice
        2
        For a Cabinet Minister, defeated at a bye-election, a seat must be found.
        The Testing of Diana Mallory
        3
        Campaigning in the north-speaking at a bye-election-lecturingfor the suffrage.
        The Testing of Diana Mallory
        4
        On the other hand, a defeat at a bye-election equals a victory at a general.
        The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
        5
        Better almost to be beaten at a bye-election than to be successful at a General.
        Without Prejudice
        6
        The Government Council shall then immediately order a bye-election.
        Proportional Representation: A Study in Methods of Election
        7
        We shall have a bye-election-thevery last thing desirable.
        Denzil Quarrier
        8
        Have you heard the result of the bye-election?
        Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch
        9
        A bye-election took place in North Roscommon.
        Ireland Since Parnell
        10
        Harcourt and Cardwell were returned; but immediately afterwards Cardwell was raised to the peerage, and a bye-election ensued.
        Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography
        11
        You don't want the bother and expense of a bye-election (approving murmurs) if it can be avoided.
        The New Machiavelli
        12
        At a bye-election in the summer of 1847 he was returned, through the interest of his uncle the Duke of Devonshire, for Derby.
        Prime Ministers and Some Others: A Book of Reminiscences
        13
        Wherever the single transferable vote has been adopted bye-elections have been retained.
        Proportional Representation: A Study in Methods of Election
        14
        It was a sample of all the other bye-elections in 1892.
        The Life Story of an Old Rebel
        15
        The shortening of parliaments would destroy what little value bye-elections possess.
        Proportional Representation: A Study in Methods of Election
        16
        This possible injustice is avoided in the list systems by the abolition of bye-elections.
        Proportional Representation: A Study in Methods of Election
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