Sentence examples for competitive seats from inspiring English sources

Also, five new competitive seats have emerged.

The large majority of competitive seats are held by Democrats, who are playing defence against an energised opposition.

But with Republicans having won the vast majority of competitive seats in the House, the Tea Party may turn its attention to primary races in 2012.

But there are now enough competitive seats that Republicans could let two opportunities for victory slip away, providing a bit of breathing room for some untested candidates.

To gain the majority, Democrats needed to win roughly three-quarters of the competitive seats, and they were winning fewer than half early today.

"Thank goodness for the Republicans that there are far fewer competitive seats than there normally are in a reapportionment year, and that they are well-funded".

The only competitive seat in the whole of California is that occupied by the disgraced Gary Condit, who is now retiring.The law does nothing to stop this.

To gain ten, as the Wall Street Journal argued recently, the Republicans would have to win virtually every competitive seat without losing any of their own.That is a very tall order.

Although disappointed by the losses of two of those incumbents, Rita Kestenbaum and N. Scott Banks, Mr. Terry said that the closeness of the races "absolutely proves that each one of these seats is a competitive seat".

All designers manufacture a drama of limited invitations and competitive seating, but do so in front of a posse of photographers and TV cameras so that images of the clothes are widely seen.

Taking up the cudgel before donors in Manhattan, Mr Obama took direct aim at US Senate candidate Todd Akin, who has resisted calls from the leadership of his own party to abandon his campaign to win what should be a competitive seat in the US Senate representing Missouri.