Sentence examples for election attempt from inspiring English sources

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But this year's conference speech, for all its earnest delivery, was his best since he saw off the Gordon Brown election attempt in 2007.

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In an explanatory video, Lessig said the PAC will run a pilot campaign in the 2014 election, attempting to elect five candidates — showing that Washington money matters in elections and everyday citizens can have a voice.

Those on the right of Labour seem to have no plan for achieving this change, having shifted little from the last two failed election attempts.

Here was another rightwing "outsider" who, after the 2012 election, attempted to cash in on her stardom with the Sarah Palin Channel, a digital network run with the web-based TV company TAPP.

Mr. Rudd, who promised not to stage another challenge before the next election, attempted a conciliatory note with his former cabinet colleagues, many of whom had in recent days issued stinging personal attacks against him dating to his time as prime minister.

Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Lazio attacked Mrs. Clinton for seeking office in a state where she had never lived before the election, attempting to fueling suspicions that she was merely seeking to turn New York into a platform for an eventual national campaign as she and her husband prepared to leave the White House.

And although he recently auctioned a painting to raise money for the Democrats, he says his interest in politics is only limited to the election; attempts to have a more general discussion about American government are rebuffed, although he will concede "I went to see that Roger Moore film [sic], Fahrenheit 9/11.

Rutte tacked further to the right in this election, attempting to hold on to voters Wilders was siphoning off.

Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic candidate in the 1952 presidential election, attempted to distance himself from the President as much as possible.

President Roosevelt, not wanting Democratic factionalism to cost him votes in the 1936 presidential election, attempted to bring together the Laffoon and Chandler factions, but to little avail.

I've read a lot of party "autopsies," in which a party that loses an election attempts to assess what went wrong.

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