Kirkuk, an oil-rich city just outside the northern Kurdish region, is the linchpin of the Kurds' drive to retain their autonomy.
But with the Minnesota race crucial to the Democrats' drive to retain their tissue-thin Senate majority, they predicted that the party's urgent need and Mr. Mondale's affection for the Senate, where he served from 1964 to 1976, would combine to propel him into the race.
Representative Thomas M. Davis III, who is leading the Republican drive to retain the House, said that even party regulars clamor for Mr. McCain.
Strangely unthreatening for most of the remainder of a largely bland first half, Rangers required a good save by Neil Alexander from Steven Thomson's powerful 35-yard drive to retain their advantage.
He is a world-class player and the manager is very keen to have Wayne as a key part of the club's drive to retain the Premier League trophy.
The only thing that can stop them this time is complacency, but I think they will have the drive to retain their title.
Sure, the right's irrational and united resistance to Obama's suggested fixes of our country's problems are fueled in part by differing ideology, and the drive to retain power and relevance.
Love's Last Shift is the story of a last "shift" or trick that a virtuous wife, Amanda, is driven to reform and retain her rakish husband Loveless.
The demanding learning process frequently drives students to retain knowledge to meet course goals instead of strengthening competence development [ 5].
Law firms have been driven to increase wages to recruit and retain graduates from top law schools, who now have more options than ever, lawyers say.
The basic idea of this regulator driven method is to retain a full upwind scheme across local discontinuities, with the upwind bias decreasing smoothly to a minimum in the farthest direction.
