Sentence examples for define the election from inspiring English sources

Mr. Clinton began advertising 16 months before Election Day, in an effort to define the election before the Republicans chose an opponent.

His aides said in interviews that perhaps the most important goal of the entire program is to define the election on the Obama campaign's terms — "change" versus "more of the same" — from here until Election Day, with the second night of the convention being heavily devoted to contrasts between Mr. Obama and Senator John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican nominee.

Foreign policy will define the election almost as much as America's troubled economy.

Sections of Fleet Street – and the Tory party – want to define the election campaign in similar terms to 1992, substituting Miliband for Neil Kinnock.

In his remarks, the president acknowledged that divergent views between him and Mr. Romney on how to revive the economy would define the election.

They argued that it would define the election as a choice between Democrats for the middle class and deficit reduction, against Republicans for Wall Street and more debt.

This was a paradigm that determined the mood and defined the election.

"It was the perfect race for the narrative that defined the election," said Lisa De Pasquale, director of the conference.

By defining the election as a referendum on Obama, he's been able to distract attention from his own record and keep the right-wing echo chamber focused on amplifying his attacks.

By defining the election as a referendum on the Tories, Ken breaks with his past in binding himself closely to Labour, which as a party has been doing far better in opinion polls of Londoners than Ken himself has.

He defined the election as a choice between staying in the euro or returning to the drachma.