Sentence examples for keep the presidency from inspiring English sources
By abstaining in a parliamentary vote for a new president, his three-party coalition looks set to keep the presidency vacant when the incumbent, Michal Kovac, leaves the job on March 2nd.
He might have helped his party win control of the Senate and keep the presidency.
An heir apparent seeks to keep the presidency in that party's hands.
The seven seek to renegotiate majority voting rules, the need to keep the presidency rotating among states and the allocation of European Parliament seats and national votes in decision making.
Reconstruction ended in the South because of a prolonged presidential standoff in 1876; Republicans ultimately got to keep the presidency, in the person of Rutherford Hayes, while Democrats extracted a promise to withdraw federal troops from the old Confederacy.
"So if we get back the House and on the assumption we keep the Senate and we keep the presidency — which I hope are two good assumptions — we're going to have a phenomenal health care," he said.
Only once since the death of Franklin Roosevelt has a party kept the Presidency for three consecutive terms — when George H. W. Bush defeated Michael Dukakis, in 1988.
As long as he clings to office, he keeps the Presidency swamped in a sea of scandal and the American public in a morass of concern and confusion.
But in the face of a citizenry skeptical of government action at home and wary of commitment abroad, Mr. Clinton managed to shape a new kind of limited executive activism that kept the presidency in the thick of things, whether in modest domestic initiatives or efforts to promote peace and trade around the world.
But, because "no-one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis," they had resolved to attempt to keep the chaotic presidency afloat for as long as it lasted, while minimizing its most harmful impacts.
After this Op-Ed page published an anonymous Trump administration official praising themselves and others for trying to keep the powers of the presidency out of the actual president's hands, I found myself nodding along to two kinds of essays about this inside-the-administration Resistance — even though they were making superficially opposing points, one against resistance, one in favor of it.
