Sentence examples for to specter from inspiring English sources

Fearing that Specter's opposition to the bill would hurt his own cause among conservatives — who still blamed Santorum for Specter's re-election — Santorum made a personal plea to Specter to vote for it.

Pennsylvania voters will have a chance very soon to either approve of this switch or vote Specter out, so time will tell whether Specter will make a worthy Democrat or not (just as time will tell whether the party fights Harry Reid's offer of full seniority to Specter on committee assignments after the 2010 elections -- even if Specter does get re-elected).

"I'm leaning to Specter," said Alan Bassman, an accountant.

2008: The Tapes Jan . 31Goodell responded to Specter in a letter.

But give credit to Specter, who is battling brain cancer and who seemed to struggle at times to maintain his concentration, for being a useful irritant.

PAGE A16 CONSERVATIVE CHALLENGE TO SPECTER After Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania's longtime Republican senator, voted for the stimulus in February, he plunged in polls of Republican voters.

This month Exxon Mobil, DuPont and others wrote to Mr Specter to complain that their payments to the trust fund would "substantially exceed" the costs they expect to incur through the courts.

The name derives from the Latin term lemures, which refers to specters or ghosts that were exorcised during the Lemuria festival of ancient Rome.

Here Mahler seemed to be saying to the specter of death: "You think my mind is slipping?

Even before the anthrax attacks in 2001, public health agencies and partner sectors had begun intensifying efforts to detect and respond to the specter of biologic agents used as instruments of terror.

Social engineering is to many a specter to be kept at as large a distance as possible instead of an ideal to be pursued.