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presidential

Related to the president. Bush won the 2004 U.S. presidential election. If somebody is presidential, they seem or act like a president. Dan Quayle didn't appear very presidential.

presidential

relating to a president or presidency presidential aides presidential veto befitting a president criticized the candidate for not looking presidential

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Simple sentences

The presidential election is not a beauty contest.
The presidential election of 1876 was very close.
Even though the media reports that she is a potential presidential candidate, does anyone really think that she is a potential president?
The Socialist Party groomed him as a presidential candidate.
Americans under the age of eighteen aren't allowed to vote in presidential elections.
A German bodybuilder of Turkish descent broke into the German presidential plane and partied in his underpants for four hours.
Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of his accomplishments and his contributions to the space program.
For someone like him, it will be easy to win the presidential election.
Maybe next fall we will see the ugliest and most cringeworthy presidential contest in the history of the United States of America.
Tom was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of his work.
American politics are interesting to watch, especially during a presidential election.
He chose not to run for the presidential election.
Regrettably, he lacks the financial wherewithal to run a presidential campaign.
During the US presidential election of 2004, the candidate John Kerry had to hide that he spoke French.
The current college works by presidential fiat.
Who do you think will win the next U.S. presidential election?

Movie subtitles

A presidential directive gave the FBI the responsibility of coordinating all counterespionage investigations.
It happened by presidential appointment, sir.
Still, it's been my impression that presidential appointments were restricted to sons of holders of the Medal of Honor.
The keys of the presidential suite.
Mr. Greathouse, the royal drapes from the Presidential Suite are missing.
I'm not asking you what you think of sex as a father, as a husband, or even as a presidential candidate.
We'll be swapping tequilas with Ortiz at the Presidential Palace.
Presidential elections should be postponed for things to become clear and not for them to do as they like!
These are the presidential elections and we're talking about farming!
Presidential election at 3 p.m. at the Plot.
Presidential election at 3 p.m. at the Plot!
Today's presidential election was proposed by Gereb.
I have no armies or police. I can't spare the presidential band.
The meeting is scheduled to convene within the hour. Members of the presidential cabinet will be joined by officials of the FBI and the joint chiefs behind closed doors.
How did he happen to get into West Point? It happened by presidential appointment, sir.
Well, there's the Republican presidential nomination.
He's chief of the presidential staff now.
They've handed the vice-presidential nomination to that idiot Iselin.
You are to shoot the presidential nominee through the head, and Johnny will rise gallantly to his feet and lift Ben Arthur's body in his arms, stand in front of the microphones and begin to speak.
Jack and Mike are preparing the Presidential suite.
What we'd like you to do, Carl, is prepare the groundwork for a possible presidential visit here this summer.
Barbarella, I have no armies or police, and I can't spare the presidential band.
I have instructions not to allow anyone into the presidential palace without a special pass.
They've just handed the vice-presidential nomination to that idiot Iselin.
But the presidential order named Jose, your honor.
Hey, did you know that my ex is going to become a presidential aide?
Twelve years ago, I recorded every telephone call made by the presidential nominee of a major political party.
American G-Men escorting presidential cars.
He was also lots different committees.Now he's the Presidential Adviser to the IMF.
We carve presidential heads from driftwood.
The Presidential car proceeded accompanied by reinforced escort.
First, Mrs. Beaumont, then the presidential whore, soon enough we'll be the only ones in Paris who didn't meet Commander Beaumont yet.
Excuse me, Colonel, but I can't keep an eye on Mrs. Beaumont, on the presidential whore and the five miles of hallways at the Intercontinental at the same time.
Presidential code.
Babysitters stabbed with knitting needles by gay presidential candidates.
His remarkable feat of aviation fills the nation with pride. and earns him a full presidential pardon.

News and current affairs

PRINCETON - Russian President Vladimir Putin's anointment of Alexander Medvedev to succeed him in what is supposed to be a democratic presidential election next March shows that Russia's leaders have not changed a whit.
That is exactly what is going on in Ukraine, where President Leonid Kuchma proposes to junk our presidential system and replace it with a strange type of parliamentary system he has concocted.
Kuchma has not suddenly converted to the view that parliamentary democracies are better than presidential ones.
Less certain is whether he will feel secure enough to hold a presidential election (or any other kind of election) if he cannot change the constitution in a way that guarantees his continued misrule.
So, in the 30 or so weeks between now and the next French presidential election, any prediction made today could be reversed, and reversed again, before the vote.
Hiding behind the originality (in French presidential politics) of her gender, Royal has avoided specifying a detailed program.
Moreover, political gridlock over fiscal adjustment is likely to persist, regardless of whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney wins November's presidential election.
If Europe conveys the impression that its friendship with America depends on who wins the US presidential elections, it is likely to freeze the transatlantic relationship for years.
America is currently transfixed with the problem it has created for itself in Iraq, but the presidential candidates are also beginning to ask what principles should guide United States foreign policy after Iraq.
His choice of Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate shook up the presidential campaign.
In effect, the political system would again be kicking the can down the road, with real progress on necessary fiscal reforms expected only after the November 2012 presidential election.
Indeed, all major legislation and reforms are likely to be stalemated until 2013, following a new presidential election.
Other presidential appointees exert considerable influence on firms, industries, or the entire economy.
Nevertheless, in advance of November's presidential election, it is important to distinguish the forces that have shaped Barack Obama's foreign policy, and to assess his handling of them.
There was also Gulnaz, a young woman who was jailed for adultery after being raped by a relative (she was recently released after a presidential pardon, but may be forced to marry her attacker).
After pro-reform forces secured victory in last year's presidential elections, all of the branches of government began cooperating to entrench democracy and the market economy in Ukraine.
In the US, alligator-filled moats and electrified border fences have featured in the current presidential campaign.
President Rafael Correa had been toying with default since the 2006 presidential campaign (debt repudiation was part of his platform), and quickly earned a CCC rating from Fitch.
Presidential assassinations do not necessarily lead to civil wars, but in Burundi, a large-scale massacre of Tutsi civilians by Hutu immediately followed the coup attempt.
Come presidential election-day in 2012, South Korean voters will pick the candidate who embodies pragmatism and centrism over a partisan or ideologue.
Unlike former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori's daughter, who lost her presidential bid in Peru last month, Park is likely to defy her family's tragic history.
Implicit threats of a unilateral Israeli attack, together with conspicuous meddling in the US presidential election campaign, have compounded Netanyahu's effort to twist Obama's arm.
Deeply frustrated by the Bush administration's policies, many people and governments in Europe hope for a fundamental change in American foreign policy after the upcoming presidential election.
A mistake in a presidential debate can turn the tide of public opinion overnight, as happened to President Gerald Ford in his debate with Jimmy Carter in 1976.

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