Sentence examples for race closely from inspiring English sources

I went outside to watch but couldn't see very well because of the crowd, so I sidled up to a closed-circuit TV because I wanted to see the race closely.

While people close to the former vice president say he has been following the race closely, he has given no signals that he is willing to step into the battle between Mr. Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

And President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi is watching the race closely.

White House political aides are following the race closely.

Pundits and fans who had followed the race closely had no idea who would win.

The conservative commentator Erick Erickson, who lives in Macon, Georgia, has been watching the race closely.

And the local and national news media will cover the races closely.

"If you ended up on election day with a big disparity in the generic ballot, it would have an impact, but the number of seats it would have an impact on is small," said a senior Republican operative who follows Congressional races closely.House Democrats entered the 2004 cycle with the stated goal of expanding the playing field, which has shrunk consistently since 1998.

Odds makers in Britain, who track American political races closely, have her at 50-to-1 and longer just to win the Republican nomination.

Pundits and policymakers watched those races closely, seeing them as a referendum on the ideas that bolstered the teacher protests that swept states like Arizona and West Virginia this spring.

Poverty and race are closely tied to chronic absenteeism, the study found.