1.   A federal judge had recently prohibited runoffs in citywide elections after a lawsuit claiming that they were used to discriminate against black candidates.

2.   Another federal monitor barred Carey from running for election after concluding that he cooperated in the fund-raising scheme.

3.   And with the election after that, the Republicans took control of the House.

4.   A presidential election soon after the assembly elections is what the Bosnian Serb hard-liners and their Russian backers were demanding as a condition for assenting to the assembly elections.

5.   But the fact that so many have won their elections after losing at the convention is worth keeping in mind.

6.   But, whatever improprieties the justices might say occurred before certification, Florida law permits a candidate to contest an election after certification by filing a lawsuit.

7.   Congo will hold elections after the war ends, he said, though he refused to say whether he would run.

8.   Dehaene wanted to avoid holding an election immediately after introducing measures that could prove unpopular in the short term.

9.   Election after election, the cost of campaigns has crept dramatically upward in San Francisco.

10.   Ever since, in election after election, Republicans have used the L-word to batter hapless Democratic candidates for the White House.