Sentence examples for immediate run-up from inspiring English sources

Equally clearly explained is the immediate run-up to the conflict, including the shockingly cynical manoeuvrings of the Israeli government.

My view is that, in the immediate run-up to the I.P.O., the paper provided some appropriately skeptical coverage.

They have worked in the immediate run-up to the summit but previously they had not functioned, causing vast pools of stagnant water to build up.

In the immediate run-up to summer, Paramount had both a major hit, with "Star Trek," and a miss, with "Dance Flick".

Even in the immediate run-up to his show — the most stressful period of a designer's calendar — he seemed calm and collected.

The London stock market has risen in an almost unbroken line since it hit a low in the immediate run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, to close yesterday at 6,172.4, its highest since 2001.

So each organisation of the kind bans factions (except in the immediate run up to and during party conferences), offers a slate of previously agreed leaders to its members for ratification, rather than an open vote for leadership candidates.

"This process was followed, as usual, this year but it became clear only in the immediate run up to the AGM that a number of investors who had not responded during the earlier consultation process held strong views on this point and, consequently, the true strength of investor feeling on this issue was not reflected during the earlier consultation".

Other than the well-publicized voter outreach and mobilization campaigns, Democrats launch in the immediate run up to a national election, there is no sustained effort to energize and engage, and keep engaged black voters.

The new organisation ran into immediate trouble in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics when emergency measures had to be taken to deal with passport queues of up to four hours as a result of May's decision to abandon the "risk-based approach" to checks.

For a start, shortfalls in supply are not the immediate cause of the recent run-up.