Example sentences of "bid for re-election " in BNC.
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1 | Yesterday 's disclosure — less than a week before the Republican convention — stunned Americans who have seen Mr Bush struggle in his bid for re-election . |
2 | George Bush yesterday drafted in Secretary of State James Baker to bolster his flagging bid for re-election . |
3 | It had occurred because of an obsessive concern over the possibility that the President 's bid for re-election might just possibly fail . |
4 | Under the terms of the deal purportedly sealed in Paris , the Iranians would not free the US hostages until after the 1980 presidential election , thus ensuring that President Jimmy Carter 's bid for re-election would gain no credit from an " October Surprise " release . |
5 | Bush announces bid for re-election |
6 | In the early stages of her marriage she kept her maiden name but when this caused a few rumblings in Arkansas and Clinton lost his bid for re-election as governor in 1980 , she took his name and he was returned to office two years later . |