free election
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffreeandelection
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free
adjective
adverb
uk/friː/us/friː/
not limited ...
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election
noun[C or U]
uk/iˈlek.ʃən/us/iˈlek.ʃən/
a time when people vote in order to choose someone for a political or ...
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(Definition offreeandelectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In 1218 the priory had a reasonable expectation of afreeelectionand of choosing a monastic bishop.
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Orderliness at the polling booths is not necessarily proof of afreeelection.
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It must be recorded thatfreeelectionto the sovereign body is a basic principle of democracy.
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The sooner we have it the better—if we are to have afreeelection!
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The third and final element was that the people were cheated of the promisedfreeelectionto settle the issue.
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I am delighted that today we have heard the results of afreeelection.
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Does he agree that the only thing that will allow afreeelectionis reasonable access to the media by the alternative parties?
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It therefore becomes much harder to satisfy people that a fair andfreeelectionhas taken place.
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This will impede the candidates of subsequent elections to promise changes concerning these matters, and will impede the voters infreeelection.
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The scrutineers were also ordered to be scrutineers in thisfreeelection.
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We only require that these countries shall be allowed to express their own will in their own way byfreeelection.
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It depends on whether you call democracy merely a matter offreeelection.
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I suppose that that is claimed to befreeelectionto the trade unions.
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I come to the question offreeelection.
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I do not understand how the employer could control the result of thefreeelectionthat the regulations require.
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He did not know what afreeelectionwas at all.
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I say that you are going in forfreeelectionor semi-freeelection.
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The atmosphere must be right for afreeelection, which it certainly was not last time.
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No one believes that democracy will be entrenched as result of onefreeelection.
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The way to find out would be to arrange for a properly conducted, internationally supervised,freeelection.
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