Sentence examples for a first term in from inspiring English sources

No one has begun a first term in the White House that old.

John McCain, 71, is hoping to become the oldest candidate ever elected to a first term in the White House.

Mr. Obama's favorability is the highest for a presidential candidate running for a first term in the last 28 years of Times/CBS polls.

Ms. Landrieu, a moderate Democrat, won a first term in 1996 by fewer than 6,000 of the 1.7 million votes cast.

The president, Alan García, was once a radical populist who presided over hyperinflation and debt default in a first term in office in the 1980s.

Why not choose the man we endorsed for re-election in 1997 after a first term in which he showed that a dirty, dangerous, supposedly ungovernable city could become clean, safe and orderly?

He too won a second term in a landslide.

Lawrence was elected to a fourth term in November.

He was reëlected for a second term in 2004.

He tried unsuccessfully to win a third term in 1880.

Mrs. Bachmann is seeking a fourth term in the House.