Sentence examples for fierce primary from inspiring English sources

That could set up a fierce primary clash with another popular Democrat, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

And a third is held by an upstate moderate who faces a fierce primary fight that could hurt the eventual Republican nominee in the general election.

Taking shelter in a cave, he reminisces about his boyhood in what was then a lavish landscape; young Alexander darts through fields of poppies and sunflowers, their fierce primary colors slashing the screen as Solntseva's camera rushes alongside him.

In New Hampshire, where the Democratic presidential candidates are locked in a fierce primary fight, the wages in industries gaining jobs are 35percentt lower than in those losing jobs.

In 2000, Ms. Spaeth was spokeswoman for a group that ran $2 million worth of ads attacking Senator John McCain's environmental record and lauding Mr. Bush's in crucial states during their fierce primary battle.

Mr. Clinton's involvement in this ad reminded many of the fierce primary contest four years ago when Hillary Rodham Clinton, now Mr. Obama's Secretary of State, questioned his foreign policy credentials in her own national security ad.

Indeed, the competition among the networks, particularly the 24-hour news channels on cable, has become so fierce that primary races tend to be called the instant the polls close, if not a few minutes earlier.

Republicans were still rare in the South, and Mr Edwards had grown tired of the rigours and costs of a typical campaign: a fierce Democratic primary, followed by a general election against a single, well-financed Republican.

"You have to work with people — on good policy," Mr. Mourdock, the state's treasurer, said recently from the back room of a restaurant in Fishers, a suburb, mulling the comments — extreme in the view of some — that he made months ago during a fierce Republican primary fight.

But the fierce 2008 primary campaign established Clinton's identity.

A fierce campaign primary would make abundantly clear the two leaders' differing methods towards a range of issues -- specifically financial regulation and reform.