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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.
John McCain: The Wall Street Journal "Washington Wire" reports that he will publish his memoirs in the presidential run-up year of 1999, and that an editor who bid on the book says the excerpt he saw brought tears to his eyes.
And this was not after a big run-up.
In an editorial, Ha'aretz urged Barak to help to create a new atmosphere of trust by unilaterally dismantling the outposts illegally established by Israelis on hilltops outside existing West Bank settlements in "a wild, catch-as-catch-can land grab" during the run-up to the Wye agreement.
In the run-up to the 1991 Broadway hit The Will Rogers Follies , composer Cy Coleman took to doing the big song--"Never Met a Man I Didn't Like"--at benefit performances all over town.