Sentence examples for by the midterm from inspiring English sources

Their attitude, defiant and determined, was summed up by a pair of signs held by two marchers in Washington, D.C., The signs said: "GRAB 'EM BY THE MIDTERMS".

Truman had seen his popularity plunge from 80 percent during his first months in office to less than 40 percent by the midterm election.

The upheaval brought about by the midterm election later that year soured Democrats on gun control, although Mr. Biden survived efforts to defeat him two years later.

Emboldened by the midterm election, key conservative ideologues have now declared their support for tax increases -- but only for people with low incomes.

The swap of a liberal San Franciscan woman for a conservative Ohio man is a symbol of the deep shift in US politics heralded by the midterm results.

Still, elections officials at a hearing on Capitol Hill last week were not optimistic about achieving meaningful nationwide improvements by the midterm elections next year.

This was the Newt Gingrich revolution, swept into Congress by the midterms of 1994.

Bottom line: All in all, the Chinese have been left puzzled by the midterms, which appear, from afar, to be defined by a kind of cognitive dissonance.

One slogan I saw on many posters seemed to bring together last year's raunchy radicalism with this year's focussed pragmatism: "Grab 'em by the Midterms".

I think the pivot to austerity in the past six months has been driven by the midterms more than by economics — it's too early for short-term cuts, with almost one in six Americans out of work.

China, as the host of the APEC summit, might have had an interest in lending substance to the event; Obama, disappointed by the midterms, must have equally welcomed a chance to tout some successes.