Sentence examples for locked up enough from inspiring English sources

Bob Bennett (R-Utah), a McConnell confidant, predicted that McConnell will have locked up enough votes for the 2006 leadership race "after the elections".

He offered only kind words for Mr. Livingston, who today locked up enough votes to succeed him as Speaker, and who cheered him on in the audience.

These drives to block the nuclear accord on Capitol Hill are going strong, even though the White House has locked up enough Democratic Senate supporters to ensure it has the votes to sustain a veto from Barack Obama of any resolution of disapproval that anti-deal congresspeople do manage to pass.

Conservatives said they have already locked up enough opposition to prevent the bill from moving to the floor.

Antarctica's ice locks up enough fresh water to inundate coastal regions around the globe.

Only when Dr. Dean actually locks up enough convention delegates to secure his party's nomination should rival Democrats feel obliged to fall in line behind him.

That the courts are locking up the wrong people, and not locking up enough of the right ones, is a favorite refrain of Dunleavy and his colleagues on the Post.

Theoretically, that could lock up enough delegates against Trump to prevent him from winning a majority before the Republican convention and force a battle in Cleveland in July for the nomination.

He and Jonathan P. Caulkins of Carnegie Mellon University say there is no way to lock up enough low-level dealers and couriers to make a significant impact on supply, and that is why cocaine, heroin and other illegal drugs are as readily available today as in 1980, and generally at lower prices.

If Excite@Home can aggressively partner with other third-party content providers, it has the chance to lock up enough of the market and render the AOL-Time Warner-Road Runner axis less of a threat.

A candidate typically is considered the presumptive nominee after locking up enough pledged delegates and super-delegates to win the nomination. .