right of election in a sentence

Examples

1. The Republic party said it would introduce legislation to ban early voting, expand the rights of election observers and strengthen the punishment for voter fraud.
2. From the court of Charles the Simple, he obtained the final right of election of the Bishop of Trier by the chapter, free of Imperial interference.
3. Until the Great Reform Act of 1832 Scarborough was a corporation borough, the right of election resting solely with the 44-member corporation or " common council ".
4. But it is a right of election which the buyer cannot be expected to exercise until he has the information that he needs to make an informed choice.
5. Under a strong government, withal, and despite the resolution to maintain their right of election, the Assemblies were unlikely to choose a person not in favour at court.
6. According to Namier and Brooke in " The House of Commons 1754 1790 ", the right of election was in the freemen of the borough who numbered about 100.
7. Bond's supporters had recourse to a tactic : the announcement of the result was delayed beyond the statutable time within which the fellows were lawfully able to exercise their rights of election.
8. Urban VI ( 1378 1389 ) abolished the abbots for life, took away from the monks the right of election, and gave the administration and revenues to a member of the Curia.
9. A divided Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutionality of state-imposed limits on campaign contributions, saying the restrictions generally do not violate the right of election donors to speak freely on political matters.
10. The monks of Canterbury Cathedral objected to Baldwin's plan, fearing that it was part of a plot to transfer the right of election from the monastic cathedral chapter to the new church's canons.