Sentence examples for fierce election from inspiring English sources

Within the Israeli Arab population, a fierce election debate does exist.

The fierce election dispute over State Senator Roy M. Goodman's seat yesterday entered a stage resembling the presidential battle being waged in the Florida courts, as five appellate judges questioned whether some rules had been shifted midstream while absentee ballots were being counted.

With the government in a fierce election campaign, German officials have been emphasizing their work against terrorism, while the conservative opposition has criticized the government for laxness and for failing to present effective new legislation to combat terrorism and sleeper cells in Germany.

Despite numerous BBC requests, we found, with a fierce election contest underway, those employing east Europeans in large numbers all refused to speak about it.

In fact, the parents who decided to surprise the beloved schoolteacher didn't put the children "at the center of a fierce election battle" - the Chronicle did for sensationalism.

Hence the perhaps apocryphal but celebrated exchange between Lyndon B Johnson and an aide during a fierce election battle full of dirty tricks: "Christ, Lyndon," said the aide, "we can't just call the guy a pig-fucker.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a moderate, argued in a fierce election-night attack on Ms Royal's performance that the party had not modernised itself and offered only "passé solutions".

SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio — President Obama touched off a fierce election-year confrontation with Congressional Republicans on Wednesday, defying their deep opposition to appoint Richard Cordray as director of a new consumer protection agency and fill three labor board vacancies.

WASHINGTON -- Drawing the lines for a fierce election-year battle over regulating the nation's financial system, Senate Republicans on Tuesday insisted that legislation proposed by Democrats and the White House would only encourage future taxpayer bailouts of big banks.

The controversy over the documents has been propelled by a volatile mix of fierce election-year rancor, daily disclosures pointing to potential weaknesses in CBS's report and the network's steadfast refusal to explain how it got the documents.

The speech by Mr. Daschle, the Senate majority leader from South Dakota, was the opening shot in what is likely to be a fierce election-year struggle over the weak economy.