Sentence examples for races expected from inspiring English sources

PAGE A23 HEDGING BETS -- With tight races expected for the White House and Congress, lobbyists are lavishing attention on both parties.

When State Senator John Arthur Smith, Mr. Pearce's Democratic opponent in New Mexico's Second District -- one of the tossup races expected to determine control of the House -- said last month that President Bush should obtain Congressional backing and seek international backing before taking military action, Mr. Pearce attacked him.

In the half-dozen closest races expected to determine the balance of power in the Senate, Mr. Wellstone is the only incumbent who has vowed to vote no this week on the resolution giving President Bush the authority to invade Iraq, prompting a stinging television advertisement and daily lashings from Mr. Coleman.

For the 2014 election, Democratic candidates posting big fundraising quarters in races expected to be competitive include Sens. Mark Pryor (D-Ark).

In a race expected to have a low turnout, the black vote could mean a lot.

Still, Kang Hyo-seok, the organizer, said the race expected to lose $26 million this year.

With John Edwards's decision to quit the race, expected to be announced officially today, John Kerry's nomination as the Democratic candidate for president is secure.

The leadership race, expected to take place over months, was reduced to weeks as May's opponents fell away, hastening Cameron's departure from Downing Street.

Republicans have 23 seats to defend, including five left vacant by retiring incumbents, while the Democrats have just 12, with a competitive race expected only in Louisiana.

That tops the roughly $3.2 million that Mr. Brown raised over same period, which itself is no shabby total in a race expected to be one of the costliest and most intense in the nation.

The ruling immediately became a political battleground in Egypt's first competitive presidential race, expected to be decided this month by a runoff between the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood and Ahmed Shafik, Mr. Mubarak's last prime minister.