Sentence examples for costly campaign from inspiring English sources

There is then a long, costly campaign (Mr Davis spent $70m last time).

Bennet then ran for the seat in 2010, defeating his Republican opponent after a vigorous and costly campaign.

The Ming government eventually tried to stop Japan's attempt to control Korea, which became a long and costly campaign.

He hated us, but he knew that it would be a costly campaign, and therefore he stopped".

You didn't have to become a one-man stimulus program, employing costly campaign consultants, ad producers and all those "volunteers".

Replacement of a commander after a significant defeat, particularly a defeat that capped a daring and costly campaign, is standard operating procedure, and Lee could expect no less.

Germans dislike costly campaigns and rampant fund-raising, and the parties have seen what happens to those too cozy with donors.

Jamie Conway of Made TV insists big chains that do not yet splurge on costly campaigns will welcome a chance to experiment in smaller media markets.

Though Spain had to fight several difficult and costly campaigns against independence movements, it retained rule of Cuba until 1898, when it was defeated by the United States and Cuban forces in the Spanish-American War.

A lengthy series of costly campaigns appeared to have brought success by 1304, and in the next year Edward set up a scheme for governing Scotland, by now termed by the English a land, not a kingdom.

The same interest rate ceilings that drove bankers to hand out pens also benefited "Mad Men," the advertising executives hired to develop costly campaigns to prove that one bank was better than another offering identical interest rates.