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Example sentences for: run-up

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Even though the run-up to the fast-track vote probably should be the lead today, the story fits a recent LAT trend that's worth noting: on Sundays, the paper has a weakness for leads straight out of the president's Saturday radio address, no matter how un-gripping the topic.
In the run-up to the Israeli election, a Smith Research Center Poll published Friday in the Jerusalem Post showed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still slipping slightly against the Labor leader Ehud Barak, and Center Party leader Yitzhak Mordechai is continuing to decline.
The Los Angeles Times goes with an impeachment run-up story.
The LAT breaks the story that former senior White House aide Harold Ickes has this week told federal investigators that he was in the same room at the White House with President Clinton when Clinton made telephone fund pitches to several Democratic contributors during the run-up to the 1994 elections.
"It would be deplorable if other parties tried to play the extremist card in the run-up to the next general election," the paper said.