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hustings - use in sentences
Converse of object
- attend: Charles Dickens writer 1835 Charles Dickens visited Exeter several times, the first to attend the hustings for the Exeter City Council elections.
- organize: In some areas union branches are organizing hustings... Postal workers POSTAL WORKERS in Watford have rejected a deal to end their strike.
- hold: The parties then held hustings which aimed to gain votes from their peers in a following election.
- host: Transport 2000 has hosted a transport hustings for four of the Mayoral candidates.
- ascend: Mr. Hunt ascended the hustings about half-past one o'clock and proceeded to address the immense multitude.
- reach: The people in the crowd were so compact and stood to firm that they could not reach the hustings without halting.
Adjective modifier
- further: There is one further hustings for Weavers Ward candidates this Thursday 27th at 6.30pm at the Sundial Center on Shipton Street.
- first: At London Chinatown's first elections hustings on 22 May 2001, Chinese voters from Westminster put the parties on the spot.
- presidential: The presidential hustings at Portland Place on May 27 gave a good feel for the choice of candidate being offered.
- final: So, tonight was the final hustings of the campaign, at St Aldate's Church in Oxford.
- public: The public hustings will take place at the Wesley Memorial Church hall, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford.
- pre-election: Churches have also been advised that in hosting pre-election hustings they should invite all political parties to participate.
Modifies a noun
- speech: Monday Well I just have finished my informal hustings speech.
- meeting: At the Hackney hustings meeting, in a mock ballot, just over 80 percent of the audience backed him.
- event: All three contenders will face each other today at the first official party hustings event in Plymouth.
Noun used with modifier
- election: ELECTION UPDATE SPECIAL FIVE politicians were put on the spot on Monday night at an election hustings hosted by the Dunoon Observer.
- leadership: There will be a leadership hustings hosted by Ashfield Liberal Democrats in North Notts on 29th January.
- Dem: Related Press Articles: Sat 14th Jan 2006: First Lib Dem hustings: the verdict.
Preposition: of
- campaign: So, tonight was the final hustings of the campaign, at St Aldate's Church in Oxford.
Preposition: for
- election: This year, the PGSA's Annual General Meeting and hustings for the elections will be held on Wednesday 25th October.
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