Race for a seat

Usage examples of campaign.

The plan of campaign, he decided, had been a great deal too elaborate, and his part looked like a wash-out.

Almost from the moment the election was decided--and the Republican campaign to unseat Adams had failed--the Republican press shifted its attacks almost entirely to the President, striking the sharpest blows Washington had yet known.

As early as May, Hamilton had launched a letter campaign to his High Federalist coterie declaring Adams unfit and incapable as President, a man whose defects of character were guaranteed to bring certain ruin to the party.

But even while the CIA hawks were plotting their campaign of sabotage, a group of Kennedy administration doves, including UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, were working on another track.

If the Left Wing adopts impossibilist methods of campaign, I shall stand aloof, but if they push for Confiscation, Equality of Economic Status, and the speedy elimination of class privilege, and keep their heads, I shall go with them rather than the yellows.

There was a trid made on Diamunde, and another with Aguinaldo standing with Sturgeon and his other major commanders on that campaign.

Assad took power, the Muslim Brotherhood, a loosely knit underground coalition of Sunni Muslim fundamentalist guerrilla groups, which had existed on and off in Syria since the late 1930s, began working to topple the predominantly Alawite Assad regime through a ruthless campaign of assassinations and bombings.

President Clinton delivered on his campaign promise to cancel several antiabortion regulations of the Reagan-Bush years.

As with any number of antidrug campaigns before and after, truth was not allowed to interfere.

Jake could see the two of them huddled like thieves on the bridge, plotting every detail of the antismoking campaign and the subsequent disinformation cover-up to deflect the outrage of the addicted.

Flip raising her hand and getting an assistant, Flip spearheading the antismoking campaign that had made me suggest the paddock to Shirl, who had told us about the bellwether.

Greenland became a base for weather stations and for airfields, both important in the antisubmarine campaign.

The Anzac in the campaigns at Gallipoli, the Dardanelles, and in Flanders served England with a loyalty and heroism not excelled by any other force.

The survivors of this particular campaign recently signed an affidavit testifying to the mass kidnapping at their Fiftieth Jubilee of the Anzac Landing.

I had determined to take the last, bold stride in my campaign of suitable working attire for archaeologically disposed ladies.