Sentence examples for protracted race from inspiring English sources

The specter of a protracted race also threatened to drain Mr. Bush's treasury, even though he has swamped Mr. McCain financially.

A federal appeals court in Boston ruled that the Puerto Rico Supreme Court, not a federal judge, should determine the validity of disputed ballots in the island's protracted race for governor.

Republicans go to the polls in five states on Tuesday facing a stark choice between Donald Trump and a protracted race that could descend into chaos and, some fear, potential violence.

The Islanders (37-29-10-4) are stoll waiting to exhale from a protracted race with the Buffalo Sabres (37-32-7-4), who are unbeaten in six straight and are 3 points behind them for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference with two games left for each team.

In a protracted race that has gone on for months without clear front-runners in the Democratic party, the sentiment is understandable.

That makes sense -- not because the media's "in the tank" for Clinton or Obama, but because a protracted race serves its own interests.

(Although various Democrats across the country — including those raising funds for the convention in Denver — have worried that this protracted primary race is siphoning off dollars from other needy pockets.

From the American fallacy that election fraud is something that only happens in countries like Iran or the Ukraine, to the painfully protracted Senate race in Minnesota that no Democrat would ever be allowed to drag out like Norm Coleman did.

Earlier this month, the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court tossed out the one decisive absentee ballot in the protracted mayoral race and called it a tie.

Six months after a chaotic election in Florida decided the protracted presidential race, state lawmakers have reached agreement on a bill that would do away with hanging chads, butterfly ballots and questions about determining voter intent.

New Jersey even had a nail-biter of a congressional race that may be as protracted as the electoral ugliness in Florida.