Sentence examples for prolonged campaigns from inspiring English sources

The furor over President Obama's birth control mandate has swiftly entered a new plane, with supporters and opponents alike calling the subject a potent weapon for the November elections and mounting what they say will be prolonged campaigns to shape public perceptions of the issue: Is it about religious liberty or women's health?

Most obvious is the shadow cast by Iraq and Afghanistan, prolonged campaigns with confused ends and messy outcomes that lost the support of the public.

At the same time, Britain has increased to 7,000 its troops in Afghanistan, where commanders are more hopeful.But fighting two biggish, prolonged campaigns is straining Britain's shrunken armed forces.

Prolonged campaigns also involved the difficulties of maintaining a coherent Arab coalition.

The Battle of Guadalcanal was one of the first prolonged campaigns in the Pacific, alongside the related and concurrent Solomon Islands campaign.

Although it is likely that prolonged campaigns are necessary to achieve widespread positive change, the optimal duration of campaign activity is not yet clear [ 5].

The unfounded claim that Clarke was intent on giving murderers shorter sentences spooked Downing Street as the Sun threatened a prolonged campaign demonising Clarke as a "hand-wringing social worker" and a "softie justice minister".

THREE months into the war in Libya, and confident talk of Muammar Qaddafi's forces being broken by NATO's bombs is being accompanied by worries that the alliance itself is feeling the strain of a prolonged campaign.

The National Review's Stanley Kurtz went even further, warning that the multilateral, U.N.-sanctioned nature of the intervention would send a dangerous signal to America's would-be adversaries: So Qaddafi has been toppled, but only after a notably weak and unnecessarily prolonged campaign.

As Canada heads into a prolonged campaign season ahead of the 2015 federal election, now is as good a time as any to re-introduce poverty into the discussion.

Emanuel had cash in his coffers in part to prepare for a potential run-off election, which would have prolonged the campaign six weeks.