Sentence examples for race the election from inspiring English sources

For months, the expectation was that the energies that accumulated during the demonstrations and dark summer after Gray's death would find some resolution in the election, but by the end of the race the election and the memory of the insurrection had separated again.

As the night wore on, in race after race, the election polls proved not just to be wrong, but biased in favor of the Democrats.

How much race impacts the election will depend, in part, on our willingness to really see race and consciously strive to be anti-racist.

With the race for the election on August 21st entering its final fortnight, she had better try something striking.

The Washington Post reported last year on discussions involving Gray, Harris and Leo Alexander, another candidate in the 2010 primary, about arranging for Alexander to drop out of the race before the election.

Democratic Senator Kay Hagan faces Republican Thom Tillis, the speaker of the state House of Representatives, in the most expensive race of the election cycle.

She dropped out of the race before the election, but received thousands of write-in votes on election day, even against political heavyweight (and eventual winner) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

After covering presidential elections since the 1956 Eisenhower-Stevenson race, the 1996 election was Mr. Brinkley's last as a broadcaster.

In Atlanta, for instance, a gun-control activist won one of the closest races of the election, unseating an incumbent Republican.

barley leading his Democratic primary challenger, Rep. Joe Sestak, in one of the most highly anticipated races of the election season.

With Rick Santorum's exit from the Republican race, the general-election season has arrived.