For example, in the 2008 United States presidential election, a politician and actor named Fred Thompson ran for the Republican Party nomination.

For four years he worked hard, with help from his supporters in Congress, to defeat Adams in the presidential election of 1828.

For his efforts, Luthor receives a presidential pardon for his past crimes.

For example, it is used in French presidential, legislative, and cantonal elections, and also to elect the presidents of Afghanistan, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Liberia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, Uruguay, Zimbabwe — see: Table of voting systems by nation.

For example, some analysts suggest that the Electoral College system in the United States, by favoring a system of winner – takes – all in presidential elections, is a structural choice favoring only two major parties.

For that reason, they contend Senator Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman presidential candidate ; she was nominated at the 1964 Republican National Convention.

For example, at the start of the 2000 election cycle Dick Cheney was a resident of Texas ; Cheney quickly changed his residency back to Wyoming, where he had previously served as a U. S. Representative, when Texas governor and Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush asked Cheney to be his vice presidential candidate.

For the first time in their history, the Whigs held a national convention to determine their presidential candidate.

For the first time significant numbers of delegates to the national conventions were elected in presidential preference primaries.

For example, ' Nixon ' refers to the same person in every possible world in which Nixon exists, while ' the person who won the United States presidential election of 1968 ' could refer to Nixon, Humphrey, or others in different possible worlds.

For the 1968 U. S. presidential campaign, Brzezinski was chairman of the Hubert Humphrey Foreign Policy Task Force.

For the presidential election, Mobutu was the only candidate, and voters were offered two ballot choices: green for hope, and red for chaos: Mobutu won with a vote of 10, 131, 699 to 157.

For example, Congress suspended sectio 315, equal time provision, for a TV forum on presidential election in 1960 because every candidate has to have same portion of time to speak.

For the 1981 presidential election, both Le Pen and Pascal Gauchon of the PFN declared their intents to run.

For the 2002 presidential election, opinion polls had predicted a run-off between incumbent President Chirac and PS candidate Lionel Jospin.

For the 2007 presidential election, Le Pen and Mégret had agreed to join forces.

For the 2012 presidential election, opinion polls showed Marine Le Pen as a serious challenger, with a few polls even suggesting that she could win the first round of the election.

For the presidential election, Venevision devoted 84 % of its coverage to Chavez's positions, and only 16 % to the opposition.

For the next seven weeks, there were daily demonstrations in front of the presidential palace.

For 2010 presidential electiones, four parties held primary elections: The Liberal Party elected former minister Rafael Pardo as candidate, the Democratic Pole elected senator Gustavo Petro, the Conservative Party chose ambassador Noemi Sanin and the Green Party chose former mayor of Bogota Antanas Mockus.

For example the press referred to a filing by Restore Our Future, Inc, that listed 3 large donations by coworkers of 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney, as being " Mitt Romney's FEC filing ".

For example, Jones and Moscone met privately with vice presidential candidate Walter Mondale on his campaign plane days before the 1976 election and Mondale publicly praised the Temple.

For this reason, journalists and commentators often apply the word disparagingly to politicians and their positions, such as the Village Voices reference to a perceived change in Rudy Giuliani's position (" Rudy Adopts New Shtick ") or Slate. com's subtitle for a criticism of presidential candidate Mitt Romney's presentation of his Mormonism (" Mitt Romney's Clumsy Mormon Shtick ").

For some unusual photographic subjects, if your vacation takes you nearby, try these events: the 600-mile auto race in Charlotte, N.C.,, on May 27 ; ;

For example, Boas studied immigrant children to demonstrate that biological race was not immutable, and that human conduct and behavior resulted from nurture, rather than nature.

Fans began honoring Earnhardt by holding three fingers aloft on the third lap of every NASCAR Cup race, and the television coverage of NASCAR on Fox and NASCAR on NBC went silent for each third lap from Rockingham to the following year's race there in honor of Earnhardt For the first three weeks after Earnhardt's death, on-track incidents brought out the caution flag on lap three.

For Golb, the amount of documents is too extensive and includes many different writing styles and calligraphies ; the ruins seem to have been a fortress, used as a military base for a very long period of timeincluding the 1st centuryso they could not have been inhabited by the Essenes ; and the large graveyard excavated in 1870, just 50 metres east of the Qumran ruins was made of over 1200 tombs that included many women and childrenPliny clearly wrote that the Essenes that lived near the Dead Sea " had not one woman, had renounced all pleasure ... and no one was born in their race ".

For example, the economist Irving Fisher said in a 1912 address to the Eugenics Research Association: " The Nordic race will ... vanish or lose its dominance if, in fact, the whole human race does not sink so low as to become the prey, as H. G. Wells images, of some less degenerate animal!

For instance, in Lovecraft's " At the Mountains of Madness " it is proposed that humankind was actually created as a slave race by the Old Ones.

For the Panathenaic festival, arguably the most important civic festival at Athens, a torch race began at the altar, which was located outside the sacred boundary of the city, and passed through the Kerameikos, the district inhabited by potters and other artisans who regarded Prometheus and Hephaestus as patrons.

For instance, the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on November 20, 1963, address racial prejudice explicitly next to discrimination for reasons of race, colour or ethnic origin ( Article I ).

For the first few years it was an exhibition, and it later became a race.

For twenty days, they were in a tight pennant race and don ’ t know where they are.

For the first time ever, security measures prevent anyone who was not a track employee from working the race, with a nearby military base handling logistics.

For 1931, he decided to concentrate fully on racing cars and agreed to race for Alfa Romeo's factory team, Alfa Corse.

For us to use the weapon would therefore be equivalent to more than suicide: it would be genocide -– the extinction of our race -- in the literal and precise meaning of that much abused expression.

For NASCAR Grand National winners at Daytona from 1949 – 1958, see Daytona Beach & Road Course. Mario Andretti, born in Italy, is the only driver to win the race not from the United States.

For the 2009 championships, this event changed to a single jump from the normal hill followed by a 10 km cross country race using the Gundersen system.

For the 2009 championships, this event changed to a single jump from the large hill followed by a 10 km cross country race using the Gundersen system.

For a practical idea of what is going on, consider an auto race.

For the Senatorial race that year, it was much closer with Democrat Jeff Merkley winning 48. 8 % of the vote ( 111, 367 ); Republican Gordon H. Smith won 46. 5 % of the vote ( 106, 114 ).

For Rosenberg religious doctrine was not important ; what mattered was that a belief should serve the interests of the Nordic race, connecting the individual to his racial nature.

For Raeder as for other naval officers, the defeat of 1918 was especially humiliating because under the charismatic leadership of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the Naval State Secretary from 1897-1917, the Navy had been promoted as the service which would give Germany the " world power status " that her leaders craved, and to that end, vast sums of money had been spent in the Anglo-German naval race before 1914.

For race meetings, teams are allocated a set number of tyres for the entire weekend, with the number available for each race depending on the type of race ( sprint or endurance ).