Sentence examples for close congress from inspiring English sources

But he was an elected autocrat who sent tanks to close Congress and undermined the party system.

The exception is West Bengal, where a newly elected government remains very popular, and is run by a close Congress ally, the Trinamul Congress.The BJP's weakness is that it struggles to appeal beyond its traditional north Indian (Hindu, and middle- to high-caste) voters.

Discretionary spending outside defence (where Mr Bush wants to be tough) rose by 17% last year and this year, so far, is going up at a 9% rate.With both chambers narrowly divided, and elections close, Congress is in the mood to spend and there is little to stop it.

Fujimori ousted her father's staunchest defenders from her party's congressional ticket at the start of her campaign, criticised his decision to close Congress in 1992 and stepped up campaigning in provinces she lost to the leftist candidate Ollanta Humala five years ago.

In the late 1980s he came up with the concept of an independent Pentagon advisory commission to recommend which obsolete military bases to close; Congress would then vote the entire package up or down, thereby avoiding piecemeal fights over individual bases that would lead to gridlock.

Asked how close Congress and the White House came to failing to reach a deal the weekend before an early August deadline at that time, Boehner said, "We were pretty close".

"I'm close," Burnett said.

"We were close," General Myers said.

(Amy Davidson has more at Close Read).

All three men have close Kremlin ties.

Towards the close, Hughes grappled with Aeschylus.