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There is a furious struggle going on between the two presidential candidates.两位总统竞选人之间进行着激烈的争斗。
Thousands of people lined the streets to watch the presidential procession pass by.数千人站在街道两旁观看总统车队通过。
Another candidate has now entered the presidential race.
Six candidates are currently vying for the Democratic presidential nomination.6名候选人目前正在争夺民主党的总统候选人提名资格。
Congress has rejected the recent presidential proposal on firearms.
He had to appear more presidential than partisan.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People in charge of or controlling other people
acephalous
administrator
anti-management
authority
bureaucrat
controller
council
counter-power
dean
deputy
manipulator
mistress
movers and shakers
multi-headed
officer
tsar
vice presidency
vice president
vicegerency
vicegerent

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Examples of presidential

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Thus, the re-polarization of congressional elections lagged behind the polarization of national presidential politics.
The average of these regional volatilities of presidential elections is 29.05%, whereas that of the other regions is 16.59%.
In the presidential election example given above only the elected candidate will actually act like president.
For both issues, the divergence between presidential and congressional elections becomes apparent from around 1964.
In all cases, those agencies insulated from presidential control at their creation are more durable than other agencies.
Individual decisions to insulate agencies from presidential control collectively and cumulatively are making the bureaucracy more difficult for presidents to manage over time.
While not as insulating as longer terms, they still serve to insulate administrative actors from presidential direction.
One of the advantages of using the presidential data is that we can compare a given speaker using two different registers.
We also control for the effective number of political parties, for whether the party is presidential or parliamentary, and whether it is federal or unitary.
However, the organization of presidential elections militated against the development of interstate contagion, even before they were synchronized nationally in 1848.
The presidential election was, however, declared by an international group of monitors to have been largely ' free and fair '.
The picture that emerges from this analysis is not consistently favourable to the winning party, presidential or otherwise.
French constitutional development provides an instructive case from which to derive some lessons concerning the presidential impact on cabinet selection.
The 1881 presidential campaign coarsened : journalists, unfettered by libel laws, caricatured, mocked, and even insulted the once revered general.
The drive for legitimacy and victory in the presidential elections was preeminent.
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