adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a presidential campaign
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Obama's presidential campaign
a presidential candidate
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What is the system for selecting presidential candidates?
a presidential commission
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the Presidentail Commission on Health Care
a presidential contest
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the 1987 U.S presidential contest
a presidential coup (= in which power is taken from a president )
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The new leader returned the country to democratic rule following his presidential coup.
a presidential election (= to elect a new president )
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He is the Democrat Party’s candidate for the next presidential election.
a presidential rival
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His presidential rivals have vigorously attacked him.
a presidential/Senate/mayoral race
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He put $12 million of his own money into a Senate race.
political/presidential ambitions
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His political ambitions were put on hold while he waited for a suitable opportunity.
presidential authority
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A number of constitutional amendments have increased presidential authority.
presidential/royal/ministerial etc duties (= duties that go with being a president, member of a royal family, a minister etc )
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The prince is now old enough to carry out royal duties.
the presidential oath (= sworn by a new president )
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the oldest person ever to take the presidential oath for the first time
the presidential/Senate etc nomination (= a nomination for a particular job or position )
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He was unsuccessful in his campaign for the presidential nomination in 2008.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
address
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Perhaps this was best articulated in the course of the presidential address to the Association by Sidney Lee in 1918.
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His presidential address in New York dwelt on the importance of communication between science and industry.
bid
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Forbes, 48, a multimillionaire funding his presidential bid with his own money, has never held elective office.
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He contends that an independent presidential bid by the Rev.
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Phil Gramm ended his presidential bid Wednesday in much the same way he campaigned: short on emotion and long on economics.
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Dole, who needs conservative activists' support for his presidential bid .
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Mr Lieberman was the first senator to endorse Mr Clinton's presidential bid in 1992.
campaign
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How the next U.S. president would seize that opportunity should be a defining issue of the presidential campaign .
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So much money had been put into circulation because of the presidential campaign that inflation was rampant.
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Their face-off here was widely seen as a possible prelude to the presidential campaign in the year 2000.
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Barry Goldwater touted it in his 1964 presidential campaign .
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But their antipathy goes much deeper than one presidential campaign .
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And when Dole wanted defense policy advice for his presidential campaign , he turned not to Thurmond but to Sen.
candidate
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Forbes is an unlikely vice presidential candidate himself, partly because of his intense attacks on Dole in the early primary states.
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Alan Keyes, the only other Republican presidential candidate to participate in Louisiana, won no delegates.
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He strongly implied that part of the plan involved funneling campaign contributions to members of Congress, state officials and presidential candidates .
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Voters report that they learn more about presidential candidates from the nationally-televised debates than from any other campaign event.
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Richard Starke believes Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes' flat-tax proposal is a fine idea.
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Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole appears to have two minds when it comes to taxes.
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Crucial tests of leadership confront the two presidential candidates .
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But this year, presidential candidate Pat Buchanan added two other issues: trade and economic insecurity.
contender
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The tone then was set by conservative commentator and unsuccessful presidential contender Pat Buchanan, who forecast a cultural and religious war.
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Edward M.. Kennedy and an adviser to presidential contender Jesse Jackson.
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Commentator and presidential contender Pat Buchanan also supports a single income-tax rate.
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Of the three leading presidential contenders in 1987, he was the closest to a normal politician.
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The other unsuccessful presidential contenders , including Sen.
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When the two presidential contenders finally left San Diego after their second 90-minute debate last Wednesday night, very little had changed.
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The Arizona primary has made one thing clear: At least one presidential contender must drop out.
contest
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Last week Iowa delivered the first results of the presidential contest of 2000.
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The number of illiterate adults exceeds by 16 million the entire vote cast for the winner in the 1980 presidential contest .
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It's a familiar routine, as Bush continues to work the centre ground in his presidential contest with Al Gore.
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Both the Clinton and Dole campaigns had assumed the presidential contest in Ohio would go down the wire.
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Dole is considered to be the man to beat in the Republican presidential contest .
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Kerrey is considered a potential rival of Gore in the next presidential contest .
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Politics was discussed at the dinner table every night, and in 1960, the Kennedy-Nixon presidential contest divided his parents.
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But on Tuesday, Louisiana is set to hold the first caucuses of the 1996 presidential contest .
debate
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And didn't it, in many ways, shape the whole presidential debate , raising causes that others feared to touch?
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That gradual shift in attitudes was first seen in the 1992 presidential debates between Bill Clinton and George Bush.
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Some soccer moms waited in their minivans and station wagons, but none had their radios tuned to the presidential debate .
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Last week in Boston Bush and Gore met for the first of the three presidential debates .
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Kantor said the Clinton campaign proposed an initial presidential debate on Oct. 6&038;.
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In a vice presidential debate with then-Sen.
decree
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The Assembly was dissolved by presidential decree on Oct. 12.
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Under a presidential decree of Aug. 6, oil and gas export prices were deregulated soas to bring them into line with world prices.
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Additionally, two presidential decrees on March 23 had been designed to cushion the blow of the price rises.
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Sobchak said the presidium's decision was illegal since his instruction had been made in accordance with the presidential decree of January 1991.
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The presidential decrees were, however, suspended after telephone negotiations on April 9.
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Because of the paralysis of Weimar Reich stags, presidential decrees were rarely in danger of repeal.
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Five million roubles had already been allocated to aid resettlement, and a presidential decree had created the legal prerequisites.
election
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The abstention rate among the 3,200,000 registered voters in the presidential elections was put as high as 43.7 percent.
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And that is one reason why this presidential election is beginning to look so transparent and trivial.
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The United States presidential election has been a calamity without precedent.
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The impact of television in a presidential election can not be underestimated.
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He explained his resignation on the grounds that he wanted to spend more time preparing his candidacy for forthcoming presidential elections .
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My party had no chance to win the presidential election .
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Mr Chirac seems to want to wait for the presidential election in 1995.
hopeful
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Republican presidential hopefuls have all claimed that they would take a firmer stance towards Moscow.
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The party has broken ranks, with five of its nine presidential hopefuls calling for a review of the revisions.
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Every four years, presidential hopefuls have learned, the New Hampshire mouse roars like lion.
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The Arizona primary was supposed to winnow the field of Republican presidential hopefuls .
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On Saturday night, the 476 convention delegates will question Republican presidential hopefuls .
nomination
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He is a heavy backer and advisor to Governor Bill Clinton, front-runner for the Democrats' presidential nomination .
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Developments in presidential election campaign December saw several key developments within the presidential nomination campaigns of both the Democratic and Republican parties.
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Bob Dole may have the Republican presidential nomination all but wrapped up.
nominee
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George W.. Bush, the putative Republican presidential nominee , but also by Rep.
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In their day, presidential nominees were chosen by members of Congress meeting in caucus.
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Run-off elections to decide finally on the presidential nominees , originally planned for Oct. 3, were rescheduled to Oct. 10.
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Meeting in Chicago, delegates named Abraham Lincoln as their presidential nominee .
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Any senator can hold up a vote on a presidential nominee without explaining why or even divulging the hold publicly.
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The Republican presidential nominee exuded confidence and looked relaxed.
palace
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He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded.
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She would even bring street urchins into the presidential palace to bathe them and treat their scabies and give them a meal.
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Although she grew up in the country's presidential palaces , Megawati displayed no interest in politics until she was 40.
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They left telephone lines at the presidential palace intact, allowing Diem to appeal to loyal units to rescue him.
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At one point Dostam used fighter bombers to attack the presidential palace and defence ministry.
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It was university women like these who surged into the streets in front of the presidential palace in Algiers to demand democracy.
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It had also claimed responsibility for blasts near the presidential palace and government buildings last month.
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He was welcomed in boardrooms and presidential palaces everywhere as the spokesman of worldwide Diaspora Jewry.
politics
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So far, the absolutist position has dominated Republican presidential politics .
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New Hampshire, with a population of only 1. 1 million, has long had a disproportionate influence on presidential politics .
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Frenzied fund-raising and free-wheeling spending transformed not only presidential politics but also House and Senate contests.
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A day away from presidential politics for a junkie is guaranteed to shift perspective and challenge perception.
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The Republicans had dominated presidential politics for almost twenty-five years when Clinton began his bid for the White House.
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This represents a dramatic turn of events in presidential politics .
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In presidential politics , winning is neither the only thing or everything.
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In presidential politics , numbers like these are extremely tempting, particularly in a close election.
power
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Presidential decrees enacting reform Gorbachev used his emergency presidential powers to issue during October four decrees marking critical steps towards market reform.
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He had a rare gift for casting presidential power in heroic terms.
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He asked for approval of a constitution with sweeping new presidential powers in the failed referendum last week.
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Because the president remained conscious during the operation, there was no need for a temporary transfer of presidential powers .
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The talks focused on presidential powers and the distribution of seats in a new transitional Cabinet.
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His interpretation of presidential power in such cases was evidently shared by some members of Congress.
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What are the secrets of presidential power ?
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The contention is that presidential power should be implied from the aggregate of his powers under the Constitution.
primary
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Rosen has worked politically for Kennedy since his 1980 presidential primary run and developed a close friendship with the senator.
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Every New Hampshire presidential primary is one for the history books.
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And this presidential primary will be anything but standard.
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By contrast, 11, 000 voters cast early ballots in the recent Super Tuesday presidential primaries .
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The prospect of relative regularity at the beginning of the presidential primaries should not suggest it will be an unexciting campaign year.
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The man making the humble request was Paul Tsongas, who just hours before had won the New Hampshire presidential primary .
race
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Then billionaire Ross Perot hinted he may rejoin the presidential race as an independent.
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In the presidential race , the outcome was not unexpected.
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The only serious contender left in the presidential race is Guei himself.
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Phil Gramm of Texas, DiVall polled for Dole in his 1988 presidential race .
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Lamar Alexander, who dropped out of the presidential race Wednesday, to endorse him in Nashville on Friday.
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And even if the agency avoids further scathing, it is likely to become a hot target in the presidential race .
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With Ross Perot off the track for now, Forbes is the only true outsider in the presidential race .
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The presidential race is setting records.
system
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Thus in its latter years the Soviet Union was constitutionally a mainstream presidential system .
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The presidential system offers checks and balances but does not ensure consistency between legislation and execution.
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First, they examine the extent to which different presidential systems are likely to experience democratic breakdown.
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Also, a presidential system can so balance power between legislature and executive that there are damaging stalemates and confusion of accountability.
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Second, they demonstrate how different presidential systems produce a trade-off between the principles of democratic efficiency and democratic representation.
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Even in presidential systems , the legislature has the power to overturn the executive by means of the extraordinary process of impeachment.
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Britain, according to Jessop etal., is moving towards a presidential system of government.
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Impeachment is quite rare in presidential systems .
term
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Menem did not have time to push through his plan before the end of his presidential term .
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The frigid opening of every congressional and presidential term inspires a bounty of new proposals.
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That has created a precedent which, it is argued, could also apply to the presidential term .
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And a national debt that took 200 years to reach a trillion bucks, tripled in two presidential terms .
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There was speculation during the campaign that 75-year-old Mitterrand might resign before the end of his presidential term .
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A gaggle of Republicans dreams of winning one presidential term .
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The Khatami camp never doubted that their man would win a second presidential term .
veto
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With those southerners on board, Mr Edwards believes Congress may have a chance of overriding another presidential veto .
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The final vote was 57-41, well short of the 65 needed to override a presidential veto .
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He said that if necessary he would use his presidential veto .
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J.. Even if passed by the Senate, it faces a near-certain presidential veto .
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A subsequent vote in the Senate failed to achieve the two-thirds majority necessary to overturn a presidential veto .
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However, the measure faces a certain presidential veto if it clears the Senate.
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If Congress and the administration are to avoid a head-on clash, and a presidential veto , a compromise must be struck.
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It is not smart politics to sit back and wait for presidential vetoes and proclamations to bail us out of every jam.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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presidential candidates
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a presidential proclamation
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Aides to Republican Bob Dole had no immediate comment on whether the cash-strapped presidential candidate would campaign by bus.
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And his political resurrection offers campaign salvation to Bob Dole, whose presidential candidacy Atwater helped to destroy in 1988.
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In the end, the wisdom of prolonging the presidential mandate will be judged by what Hariri delivers.
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It has become a cliche to say that presidential candidates are being marketed like bars of soap and boxes of cereal.
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Sobchak said the presidium's decision was illegal since his instruction had been made in accordance with the presidential decree of January 1991.
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The cult of precision reaches its apotheosis in the presidential code name: Zero One.
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The vice presidential debate is scheduled Oct. 2 in Hartford, Conn.