Example sentences of "for a second term " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that Essex Man has demonstrated his backing for one winning team , the Conservatives , the men of Essex will be keen to show that they , too , deserve the people 's support for a second term at the head of the Championship table . |
| 2 | Haygarth Jackson was reappointed for a second term as chairman of Publications and Information Board . |
| 3 | Hence began the campaign to enable the President to stand for a second term of office . |
| 4 | Theoretically his presidency must end in 1852 , but it was already evident that the Prince hoped for a second term of office , to which end he began to organize a campaign to drum up sufficient popular support for this to become possible . |
| 5 | Wilson had made National Self-Determination the central plank of his 1916 election campaign for a second term in office . |
| 6 | The ‘ Falklands factor ’ would be seen as a principal reason for the Conservatives ' unexpectedly good showing in the local council elections that year , and , too , for the return of Margaret Thatcher for a second term as prime minister at the General Election of 1983 . |
| 7 | Sessions of the Supreme Soviet and of its standing commissions were dominated by these important figures , a domination reinforced by the fact that the more humble deputies were not usually elected for a second term . |
| 8 | Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman , who had been re-elected President for a second term in September 1984 , was assassinated in November 1989 [ see pp. 37033-34 ] . |
| 9 | At the last presidential elections , held on Jan. 31-Feb. 1 , 1988 , Mauno Koivisto , the candidate supported primarily by the SSDP , failed to win the required absolute majority but was re-elected for a second term by the electoral college on Feb. 15 [ see pp. 35853-54 ] . |
| 10 | Parliament elects a President for a four-year term ( the current President , Wee Kim Wee , having been re-elected for a second term in August 1989 — see below ) who appoints a Cabinet headed by a Prime Minister and responsible to Parliament . |
| 11 | Diouf was re-elected for a second term at the same time . |
| 12 | President : Chaim Herzog was first elected by the Knesset to the largely ceremonial post of President in 1983 ; he was re-elected for a second term in 1988 . |
| 13 | On June 21 Kurt Waldheim , 72 , announced that he would not be standing for a second term as President in the elections due in 1992 . |
| 14 | President Bush had stated on Aug. 2 that only a health problem — which he stressed did not currently exist — would deter him from seeking re-election for a second term . |
| 15 | Opposition leaders stated their concern that the PRI would push through an amendment to allow Salinas to run for a second term as president in 1994 . |
| 16 | The session had originally been called to debate the reform of the electoral system and to allow the sending of Japanese troops abroad in peacekeeping or disaster-relief roles — two pieces of legislation closely associated with Kaifu 's ambitions to secure election as LDP leader for a second term . |
| 17 | During November the three largest parties announced their candidates for the presidential elections scheduled for April 26 , 1992 , to elect a successor to Kurt Waldheim , who had in June 1991 declined to stand for a second term [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 18 | With Aquino adamant that she would not stand for a second term , the jostling for position amongst those ambitious to succeed her intensified in late 1990 and early 1991 . |
| 19 | Waldheim , who had been barred from entering the USA [ see p. 35528 ] and shunned by European governments , had announced in June 1991 that he would not stand for a second term [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 20 | Among the Bush campaign 's problems were the President 's lack of domestic achievements or a clear aims for a second term ; a shortage of tangible foreign policy achievements or objectives ( the success of the Gulf war having been marred by the continuance in power of Saddam Hussein ) ; the depressed state of the US economy ( unemployment figures released in July showed that the total without work had risen to 7.8 per cent ) ; continuing reservations over the choice of Dan Quayle as Vice-President ; and growing rumours that the President 's apparent lack of appetite for the election campaign was symptomatic of serious ill-health — although Bush sought to dispel the " crazy rumours " surrounding his campaign . |
| 21 | We do know that it was not until the late summer of 1965 that he gave private indications of his intention to stand for a second term , and not until 4 November that he made his decision public . |