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Example sentences for "presidential"

Lexicographically close words:
presided; presidencies; presidency; president; presidente; presidents; presidentship; presides; presidial; presiding
  1. There is more happiness in bringing souls back to God than in three presidential nominations.

  2. She is afraid of England, afraid of Mexico, afraid the presidential election will be twisted by it.

  3. He was in the presidential chair at the time of our former difficulties.

  4. As the time of the presidential election was now approaching the probable candidates for the office began to be discussed.

  5. That virtually served public notice that the Oregon question was not to be reopened by Congress, at least not until the conclusion of the presidential election.

  6. In the event of either of the prominent candidates, Van Buren or Clay, obtaining the presidential chair, we should not be placed in any better situation.

  7. There is perhaps no body of people in the United States who are at the present time more interested about the issue of the presidential contest than are the Latter-day Saints.

  8. But his mighty whisk through the great national fire, for the presidential chestnuts, burnt the locks of his glory with the blaze of his folly!

  9. Occasionally he was disturbed for a moment about possible injury to his Presidential dignity.

  10. In 1868 the Radicals, fearing the result of the presidential election and afraid of the Ku Klux movement which was beginning to be felt, passed a bill giving to itself the power to choose presidential electors.

  11. The state government was shaken to its foundations by the presidential campaign and election of 1868.

  12. The Presidential theory, as formulated later, would not have recognized the state governments, and to this view the Democrats came after the war.

  13. Its platform was essentially the presidential plan of Reconstruction.

  14. As a preparation for the autumn presidential contest, Spencer worked upon the fears of Grant and secured the promise of troops, though he had some difficulty.

  15. The Presidential and Democratic theories, like the Southern theory, were based on the doctrine of the indestructibility of the state.

  16. The presidential campaign in 1872 had assisted Lewis.

  17. The most famous parade and riot of the Ku Klux Klan occurred in Huntsville, in 1868, before the presidential election.

  18. The Whigs wished to continue the "Union" organization, for they no longer found it possible to act with the northern Whigs, and in 1852 several of their prominent leaders in Alabama refused to support the Whig presidential ticket.

  19. It was absolutely necessary, he said, to admit Alabama in order to settle the Fourteenth Amendment before the presidential election.

  20. After high mass, accompanied with the recitation of the Tridentine creed, the four days’ conference began with a brilliant presidential address by Döllinger “On the Past and Present of Catholic Theology.

  21. Who were their presidential candidates in that year?

  22. At this particular time it was arranged that there should be a meeting of the Republicans of St. Louis--it was in the midst of an exciting presidential campaign--at which Lane was to be the principal speaker.

  23. Subsequent to the presidential campaign of 1844, the third-party Abolitionists held a convention in Pittsburg, in which Giddings was a leading actor.

  24. Their first presidential ticket got only seven thousand votes in the whole country.

  25. In the county in which I lived when a boy, there was one vote polled for the first Abolitionist presidential ticket.

  26. The writer prepared an article discussing his availability as presidential timber and suggested him as a good man for the nomination.

  27. The county in which I lived when a boy, that furnished only one vote for the first Abolitionist presidential ticket, became a Republican stronghold.

  28. During no Presidential term since the organization of the Government, has more been done to consolidate the Union, and develop its resources, and lay the foundations of national strength and prosperity.

  29. Jackson, and none could have been more worthy the consideration of Mr. Monroe and his successors in the presidential chair.

  30. The Presidential campaign of 1824, was more spirited and exciting than any that had taken place since the first election of Mr. Jefferson.

  31. Washington occupied the presidential chair, application was made for the appointment of one of his old and intimate friends to a lucrative office.

  32. This debt punctually and honorably discharged, they looked to another generation, possessing claims of a different description, for servants to elevate to the dignity of the presidential chair.

  33. An instance of this description occurred during the first year Mr. Adams occupied the presidential chair.

  34. Whilst this controversy was pending, I called at the Presidential mansion, one afternoon, when General Jackson, strange to say, happened to be alone.

  35. The first session of the twentieth Congress, which was held immediately preceding the presidential campaign of 1828, was characterized by proceedings, which, at this day, all will unite in deciding as highly reprehensible.

  36. And it had the vicious taste to add: "Nothing in Mr. West's presidential life became him like the leaving of it.

  37. In 1880, when the next presidential campaign, that of Garfield and Hancock, opened, the Democrats of Illinois nominated Trumbull for governor of the State, without his own solicitation or desire.

  38. Thus Kellogg and his crew became the masters of Louisiana, and four years later became the deciding factor in the Hayes-Tilden presidential contest.

  39. Two presidential lustrums of Grant and one of Hayes had erased from the hearts of men the burning sensations of impeachment.

  40. But we knew that his aims were patriotic, and we reflected that some risks are taken at every presidential election.

  41. They became possible if not inevitable when the presidential chair was taken, in a time of crisis, by a man of combative temper, without prestige in the North, and devoid of tact although of good intentions and undoubted patriotism.

  42. By a vote of eight to seven the Commission decided in favor of Stoughton's contention, and the same rule was applied to all the other disputed returns, and by this ruling the presidential office was awarded to Rutherford B.

  43. Why, sir, the seven free states of the Northwest, at the late presidential election, cast three hundred thousand more votes than all the fifteen Southern States together.

  44. Andy Johnson is understood to be a Presidential aspirant by most people in this state.

  45. The Dutchmen, their political prospects in Great Britain blighted, now hung all their expectations on the chance that in America the Presidential election of 6th of November would bring about a change in their favour.

  46. Things seemed to be shaping themselves fairly well, notwithstanding the rumour that the Boers intended to maintain guerilla warfare till the presidential election in America in November was over, when intervention was promised them.

  47. The Compact changed the style of Yuean's rule from a nominal parliamentarism to presidential government, and legitimatized the dictatorship.

  48. Under the draft constitution proposed for the period after the end of party dictatorship a presidential system was to have been inaugurated.

  49. He worked with Judge Paul Linebarger, his sympathizer and supporter since 1906, on a biography similar to the campaign biographies of American presidential candidates.

  50. Article 45 required the countersignature of all presidential orders by the appropriate cabinet minister; the ministers were to be appointed by the president with the concurrence of the legislative.

  51. Sun Yat-sen, because of his Southern birth, his thoroughly revolutionary tenets, and his impatience with the jobbery of petty politics, was not prepared for the presidential office in Peking.

  52. The Presidential Dictatorship of Yuean Shih-k'ai Not content with having immobilized the National Assembly, Yuean proceeded to kill it.

  53. I thought Madame Madero showed the strain of that climb from obscurity and prison up the via triumphalis to the presidential peaks.

  54. One is continually interested in the composition of the presidential receptions, which means so much more than appears.

  55. The great thing to read is Madero's Presidential Succession.

  56. It appears that Madero and Reyes made a pact according to which each was to have a free hand at the presidential nomination.

  57. Vasquez Gomez has announced himself as candidate for the coming presidential elections, but I expect it will end with the announcement.

  58. I have not been watching as carefully as I might the great, threefold presidential race at home.

  59. There is a hint of "Praetorian Guard" creeping into the presidential surroundings, and other signs that the "Apostle" is beginning to feel the need of armed forces at his back.

  60. She has been coming for me the past three mornings in the big presidential auto.

  61. It would seem the presidential bee buzzes under any hat!

  62. She told me about the six children they have adopted at one time or another, according to various exigencies; all the children too small to make an appearance, however, on the presidential stage.

  63. There is something about General Reyes, with his upstanding mien, long, white beard, shrewd eye and air of experience, which would not have fitted badly into the presidential frame.

  64. Before the then next Presidential election, the law case came to and was argued in the Supreme Court of the United States; but the decision of it was deferred until after the election.

  65. Two years later this party entered the Presidential contest with John C.

  66. The Presidential inauguration came, and still no decision of the court; but the incoming President, in his inaugural address, fervently exhorted the people to abide by the forthcoming decision, whatever it might be.

  67. These two States may be said to represent both of the old parties that existed in New England during the thirty years that followed the Presidential election of 1824.

  68. The political state of the country, as indicated by the result of recent elections, is not without interest, in connection with the Presidential contest.

  69. This is a huge challenge to the human being who occupies the Presidential office.

  70. It has been my privilege to hold the Presidential office for nearly eight years now, and much has been done in which I take great pride.

  71. This will be a presidential election year-the year in which politics plays a large part in our lives--a larger part than usual.

  72. We tend to divide our future into short spans, like the two-year life of this Congress, or the four years of the next Presidential term.

  73. Concede that the Southern States were justifiable in seceding from the Union because Lincoln (with their connivance) was chosen President, and it were absurd ever to hold another Presidential Election, or ask any man to vote hereafter.

  74. He thought the torrent of mendacity which accompanies our presidential elections must have a bad influence on the morals of the American people.

  75. Footnote: In the autumn of 1884 my brother asked a plumber then working for him, if he intended to vote for General Butler, who was presidential candidate that year for the labor-party.

  76. They, in a particular manner, appreciate that patriotism which disclaimed competition for the presidential chair with that other eminent character who has finally been called to it--as setting a just value upon the will of the people.

  77. A history of the presidential contest in Congress in the spring of 1801, with an account of some of the circumstances which preceded and followed it, has now been presented.

  78. The details in relation to the presidential contest of 1801 have occupied much time and space.

  79. This letter was written more than a year after the presidential contest in Congress.

  80. When any great political question agitated the country, such as a presidential election, Mr. Burr seemed to feel it his duty to express his opinion to those whom he supposed confided in his discernment or his patriotism.

  81. The presidential electors of the state of New-Jersey were federal.

  82. Smith, of New-Jersey, as a presidential elector, was to have voted for Burr; denial of Dr.

  83. It would seem that the task of recording the presidential contest in Congress, in the spring of 1801, was now brought to a close.

  84. By his adherents, it was deemed indispensable that he should be a member of the legislature to be chosen in April, which body was to appoint the presidential electors.

  85. What has occurred since the Presidential election is demonstration that both parties at the North regard unlimited negro suffrage as subversive of the principle of reliance upon moral worth and clear intelligence.

  86. Hard work and honesty will do more for us than the settlement of the Presidential question, although that will probably do something.

  87. Uncle Prudent turned on the steam whistle, which did duty for the presidential bell, for even the Kremlin clock would have struck in vain!

  88. The porter of the Weldon Institute coolly and calmly, like a policeman amid the storm of the meeting, approached the presidential desk.

  89. This presidential term was pivotal in another way.

  90. All allowances must therefore be made for the political situation as regards the Presidential election thus created.

  91. In the presidential campaign of 1888 personalities had little place.

  92. The presentation day procession was headed by the presidential party.

  93. From 1880, when Indiana presented his name to the Republican National Convention, General Harrison was, in the West, constantly thought of as a presidential possibility.

  94. It looking forward to the presidential campaign of 1888 the Democracy had no difficulty in selecting its leader or its slogan.

  95. Bland, of Missouri, father of the Bland Act, as the presidential candidate, but the first balloting showed a change.

  96. Between Columbus Day and the opening of the Exposition came the presidential election of 1892.

  97. During the presidential campaign of 1860 his friends made a canvass of the voters of Springfield for the purpose of ascertaining how they were going to vote for president.


  98. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presidential" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    presidential candidate; presidential election; presidential elections; presidential electors; presidential nomination