Sentence examples for campaign race from inspiring English sources

That way, students will both deepen their knowledge of the candidate through successive activities and, in a sense, recreate the energy of a true campaign race.

Barack Obama was on the phone, speaking about the one issue he had not wanted to focus on in his campaign: race.

LAS VEGAS — After staying on the sidelines in the first year of the campaign, race and to a lesser extent gender have burst into the forefront of the Democratic presidential contest, thrusting Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton into the middle of a sharp-edged social and political debate that transcends their candidacies.

The campaign race on the streets of Thurrock, just like the race on the town's Arena Essex Raceway, is unpredictable and uncertain.

On the US campaign race to succeed him, Obama confidently predicted a Democrat will succeed him when he leaves office in January 2017.

As President Bush's re-election campaign races to accumulate the largest treasury in history, a similarly fierce contest has begun among his best-connected supporters.

But this year, as each campaign races toward an outrageous fund-raising goal of as much as $1 billion each, the need to end the pay-to-play auction is greater than ever.

Amid new evidence that civilians lagged far behind soldiers in voting from abroad four years ago, political operatives on both sides of the presidential campaign raced this week to help Americans overseas cast their ballots in time for next month's election.

There were arguments over dogs and kittens, a minor contretemps about circumcision and a weightier one over antiterrorism efforts, and first-day-of-school promises to improve public education, as New York City's long and tumultuous mayoral primary campaign raced to an end on Monday.

Residents in several other nations are also poll-bound this week or in the near future, and though their campaign races may not be as immediately dividing, the stakes are undoubtedly profound for those who live there.

It refocussed the campaign on race.