Example sentences of "to run for president " in BNC.
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| 1 | SITTING in the antechamber to his congressional office , Stephen Solarz , the loquacious representative for New York 's 13th congressional district , is taking a five-minute lunch break and wondering whether to run for president . |
| 2 | ‘ The senator obviously just wants us to drown his children so they ca n't embarrass him when the time comes to run for President , ’ she told me next morning . |
| 3 | As the Clinton cavalcade approached the Old State House , on the steps of which he first announced he intended to run for President , a black choir sang America The Beautiful . |
| 4 | And one of the reasons I wanted to run for president is to open the floodgates for debating ideas so that we could try to change in the appropriate way . ’ |
| 5 | US columnist William Buckley Jr has worked out that if Electronic Data Systems Corp founder Ross Perot does decide to run for President , his commitment to spend $100m of his estimated $3,000m fortune on his campaign , it represents about 3% of his capital worth , about half what his wealth generates in a year , so that by election day in November , he will still be richer than he was when he started out . |
| 6 | The 23 prospective presidential candidates who had contested the discredited primaries would not be allowed to run for president the next time , and all were banned from political activity for the remainder of the transitional period . |
| 7 | A COMIC behind-the-scenes look at what it 's really like to run for President in the United States is offered in Feed ( BBC-2 , 11.55pm ) . |
| 8 | After a dozen years in the Arkansas state-house he decided to run for president at time when President George Bush 's re-election was considered virtually certain . |