Sentence examples for facing a difficult election from inspiring English sources
With Mr Kabila facing a difficult election race next year, repression is unlikely to let up.
In August 2001, the Howard government, then facing a difficult election, scored a noticeable bounce in the opinion polls after the Tampa affair.
Republicans, facing a difficult election year and bitter about their minority status, have chosen to make things as difficult as possible for Democrats.
Scotland's first minister, Alex Salmond, who is facing a difficult election next month, blamed the violence narrowly on what he called a "lunatic element," but Devine, the historian, sees a more sinister threat.
Britain falls into that category, he said, because the British Labour government, led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, is facing a difficult election battle and appears more concerned with pleasing voters than investors.
Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany, facing a difficult election battle in which immigration is a major issue, said, "We have reached a very balanced solution that clearly indicates that we want to limit and to channel immigration.
The Republicans face a difficult election in November.
His son, the presidential candidate of the ruling Concertación coalition, faces a difficult election on December 13th.
Americans have memories of Iraq and President Obama faces a difficult election campaign.
The attitudes of such hardline governments will matter at least as much as those of EU institutions.The Finnish government, which in 2011 refused to back Greece's second bail-out until it was offered collateral, has every reason to be tough: it faces a difficult election in April, and there are few votes to be won by being nice to Greeks.
But he did do some fishing while he was there.Between visits to the state's beleaguered rural schools, the secretary netted thousands of dollars at a fundraiser for Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R), who faces a difficult election battle.Even as President Bush mounts up for his own re-election campaign, the administration has signaled that maintaining GOP control of Congress remains a parallel goal.
