What is "midterm"

Usage examples of "midterm".

There is no one for the Soviets to deal withleaders of sharply deteriorating caliber, beset by democracy, by politics, and doing six-month stints between midterm elections, lame-duck periods, and the informal referenda of American public life.

Just before the midterm exam Ben took a lethal combination of barbiturates, fell into a coma, and died three days later.

Gately suffered her cirrhotic hemorrhage and cerebral-blood thing in late October, just before the midterms Gately was getting ready to fail.

As they walked, under a midterm daytime moon, like a mask flattened at the brow and sharpened at the chin, like a shield raised against arrows, Richard was remembering, how, in the Canal Creperie, between Rattlesnakes, he had reached for his food punnet and felt the lateness of the hour when the nacho clung to its sauce like a stirring-stick left too long in the paint, and the young man had said, "It's a sham, it's a sham.

Winnie was in the middle of the final essay question on her Western Civ midterm, but for a split second she thought she was in a dream.

It was a jolt, then, when Ferraro read off the grades for the midterms and announced that James Waterman had received an F.

He understood that he could nationalize a midterm election with the contract, with incessant attacks on the Democrats, and with the argument that all the conflicts and bitter partisanship in Washington the Republicans had generated must be the Democrats’.

In January 1967, after the Democrats had lost four seats in the midterm elections, they still had a margin of sixty-four to thirty-six—.

Voters generally believed their chief executive was entitled to four years to make his mark, and they regarded any new governor's first race for re-election as a kind of midterm exam.

I have responsibilities closer to hometo my employees, to my staff, to the people who depend on me personally to be there, and not go haring off on some kind of damnfool idealistic crusade designed to get someone close to me out of a midterm exam.

We stand and talk-something about the coming midterm exam, something about the due date for a paper.

The midterm examination is very difficult, I work until the end of the hour and still do not get a real answer for question 6.

Next week’s midterms, and everybody needs to blow off a little steam beforehand.

Instead, it has everything to do with being able to count on someone not to break up with you just because you danced with another guy at a party one night, or not to take it personally when you can’t call them as often as you’d like because you’re super-busy dealing with midterms and a family crisis.

All I know is that I'm going to study like a maniac this weekend, finish my midterms next week, go hear Travis sing at The Beanery on Wednesday, have a fabulous time with him, and run to the bus station by midnight to meet you guys and go back to Jacksonville for Thanksgiving-before I turn into a pumpkin.