Sentence examples for vicious primary from inspiring English sources

Mrs. Lincoln is in a vicious primary campaign.

John McCain had a major speaking role in the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia despite waging a vicious primary battle against George W Bush.

And after a vicious primary battle that had diminished his own stature, Bill Clinton also took a first, but large, stride towards restoring his own reputation.

The Republicans say that the vicious primary has turned Mr Romney into a better and battle-hardened prospect for the White House.

The Christian right conducts increasingly vicious primary battles.Colorado Republicans also went too far last year over a plan to tweak a 1992 initiative that limited spending growth.

In June, the congressman Bob Inglis, of South Carolina, a tough conservative who nonetheless backed Bush's financial bailout, lost a vicious primary fight with a right-wing insurgent named Trey Gowdy.

Vicious primaries may yield either unelectable extremists or moderates who have been wounded by attack ads and drained of money.

In particular, I think our absurdly long, vicious, and costly primary campaign dissuades the best of the lot, and that conservatives would be better served by a nomination process similar to the old conventions.

He pointed to the likelihood of a weak Democratic candidate and of a vicious and divisive G.O.P. primary.

It creates a vicious circle whereby men, as primary bread winners, are under increased pressure to work ever longer hours in order to ingratiate themselves with the boss.

In particular, Franceschi identified the macrophage as the primary modulator of the vicious cycle existing between innate immunity, inflammation and stress.