Election again

Usage examples of reelection.

Timothy Pickering spread the rumor that to secure his reelection Adams had struck a corrupt bargain with the Republicans.

I had no trust in either of them, and less trust for Kennedy than for Barnett, because the law barred Barnett from reelection, but I knew John Kennedy wanted to be reelected.

With her mother and the campaign finance committee for the reelection of a United States senator in one of the cushiest neighborhoods this town has to offer.

Bush administration during his successful campaign for reelection by deriding American plans to topple Saddam Hussein and declaring that his country would not participate in the war.

They had brainstormed the winning strategy and financed his successful run for Congress and the four reelection campaigns that fol­lowed.

And this hull breacher—the kickback I'm giving you for your help will finance your reelection campaign, maybe more.

McPherson, engaged in a reelection campaign, the fight of his political life against ace crimebuster Ellis Loew, needs time to relax.

I was shown drawings and small demonstration models of some new weapons systems that were ready to go into production, awaiting only Tweed's reelection and access to the government blank checks he had once controlled.

Illiterate punks defacing public property with spray-painted graffiti, suicide bombers, semicoherent pop stars selling rage and nihilism set to an infectious beat, attorneys specializing in tort law and filing massive class-action suits with the express intention of destroying major corporations and age-old institutions, serial killers, drug dealers, crooked cops, corrupted corporate executives cooking the books and stealing from pension funds, faithless priests molesting children, politicians riding to reelection by the agitation of class envy: All these and numerous others, working at different levels, some as destructive as runaway freight trains hurtling off the tracks, others quietly chewing like termites at the fabric of civility and reason, were necessary to cause the current order to collapse into ruin.

For example, despite his great popularity, Zell had tried and failed to get the state legislature to take the Confederate cross off the state flag, and when his successor, Governor Roy Barnes, did it, he was defeated for reelection.

Now you're a bright young man-that means, in round numbers, you can write three five-thousand-dollar checks for my PAC and two one-thousand-dollar checks for my reelection.

On the one hand it was a limited partner in an economic venture, on the other, a contributor to a conservative politician's reelection campaign.

Illiterate punks defacing public property with spray-painted graffiti, suicide bombers, semicoherent pop stars selling rage and nihilism set to an infectious beat, attorneys specializing in tort law and filing massive class-action suits with the express intention of destroying major corporations and age-old institutions, serial killers, drug dealers, crooked cops, corrupted corporate executives cooking the books and stealing from pension funds, faithless priests molesting children, politicians riding to reelection by the agitation of class envy: All these and numerous others, working at different levels, some as destructive as runaway .

Less than half of those 34 votes he needs for acquittal are up for reelection in '74, and any incumbent president -- even one who's already been impeached -- has a massive amount of leverage when it comes to using the political pork barrel.

He directed his reelection organization, the Committee to Reelect the President--known (incredibly enough) by the acronym CREEP--to stack the deck even more thoroughly in his favor.