Sentence examples for potent election from inspiring English sources

Democrats wound up putting intelligence on Iraq, a potent election year issue, back on the front page, with Republicans like Mr. Lott and Mr. Roberts making powerful pronouncements about how the system failed.

Amid negotiations over the bill, Republicans — who see their position as a potent election issue in 2012 — delivered an overwhelming show of unity in support of such ideas late last week, as 45 of the party's 47 senators voted for a similar proposal to ban civilian trials for such "enemy combatants".

Individual lawmakers are feeling their own way on potent election-year matters like corporate accountability, access to low-cost drugs, the shape of a Homeland Security Department and spending on regional concerns like fighting forest fires.

Though he has been Labour's most potent election-winner and will, unusually, leave Downing Street at a time more or less of his own choosing, Tony Blair is facing the real possibility of something much worse than failure: shame and humiliation.This has nothing to do with Iraq or the billions wasted on a partially reformed health service.

And his admiration for the "potent" Obama election machine is so great he admits buying copies of Democratic campaign manager David Plouffe's memoirs to hand out to his own staff during his successful 2012 Senate race.

Mr. Gore's appearance at a community center in the swing state of Missouri began a weeklong Gore drive to highlight an issue that has emerged as one of the most potent this election season: the spiraling cost of prescription drugs.

A4 World Briefing A5 NATIONAL A8-11 Gore Links Drug Makers And G.O.P. to High Costs Vice President Al Gore accused drug makers of "price-gouging" and "special interest schemes" to keep prices high, as he began a weeklong drive on an issue that has emerged as one of the most potent this election season -- the rising cost of prescription drugs.

But a review of campaign finance disclosure forms shows that gay and lesbian advocates have become a quiet but potent force this election season.

The debate about guns is no longer over whether assault rifles ought to be banned, but over whether guns should be allowed in bars, churches and colleges.The NRA also claims to be a potent force in elections; it says it defeated 19 of the 24 congressmen who were on its hit-list back in 1994.

Numbers in the report help explain why health care is roaring back as a potent issue in this election year.

And that could be a potent issue in another election -- the one that pits Hillary Rodham Clinton against Rick Lazio for the New York Senate seat.