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Example sentences for "second term"

  • Mr. Roosevelt became President by the death of President McKinley about half a year after the beginning of the latter's second term.

  • However, where the one-year term prevailed, it was customary to reelect the governor to a second term.

  • For an election of President and Vice-President by a direct vote of the people, instead of through the agency of electors, and making them ineligible for reelection to a second term.

  • But I really believe one of the reasons the American people gave me a second term was to take the tough decisions in the next four years that will carry our country through the next 50 years.

  • Madison was too keen a politician not to know that he could not afford to alienate this group if he wished a second term in office.

  • When Washington consented reluctantly to serve a second term, his unopposed reëlection was assured.

  • By the end of Jefferson's second term of office, the civil service was as preponderatingly Republican as it had been Federalist in 1800.

  • After my re- election I was supported by the Republican party for Speaker for my second term.

  • The term of the presidential office was, after many debates, fixed at four years, although an urgent minority wanted him to serve seven years and not be eligible for a second term.

  • In its domestic relations, also, the United States, as the time of Washington's second term drew to a close, was exceedingly prosperous.

  • The unpopularity of the Embargo, especially in the Eastern commercial States, was such that in Jefferson's second term it was repealed.

  • By Caesar's efforts, a better understanding was brought about between the triumvirs, and it was agreed that his own proconsulship should be prolonged for a second term of five years.

  • At the expiration of Monroe's second term, there being no choice for president by the people, John Quincy Adams, who had long been in public life in various important stations, was chosen by the House of Representatives.

  • The Vicomte's term of office, as we know, had already been renewed for a second term, and he had sent in his resignation more than once, urging ill health as an explanation.

  • Senate (having just been nominated for a second term), and started for Camp Taylor, where later he received his commission.

  • Later in the autumn he started on one of the most strenuous campaigns of his life, and swung around the country asking for Republican support for William McKinley’s second term.

  • At the end of his original term of four years, Washington was prevailed upon to give way to the universal feeling of the nation and to accept a second term.

  • When, immediately after the declaration of war, in 1812, Madison was put forward as Presidential candidate for a second term, the contest showed sharply the line of demarcation.

  • After the triumphant termination of the Bank, Jackson's second term of office was peaceful and comparatively uneventful.

  • To-morrow is Inauguration Day; you will then enter upon your second term of office.

  • It was not that: not the loss of a double meed of honour in a second term.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another order; been formed; proper mode; second advent; second brood; second brother; second crop; second degree; second demi; second edition; second generation; second glance; second growth; second letter; second pair; second period; second person; second round; second sight; second voyage; secondary consideration; secondary importance; secondary school; secondary sense; secondary sexual; substantial money