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Example sentences for: run-up

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The NYT reports that, as part of the run-up to Kyoto, the Clinton administration yesterday invited more than 100 national and local television weather forecasters to the White House for briefings on climate change in hopes of rallying public support for new measures restricting greenhouse gases.
Greenspan's comments to the House Banking subcommittee were a green light for Wall St., which responded with a two percent run-up to a new high of 8,061.
Such humor or whimsy tends, in Johnson's work at any rate, to be of a fairly cynical turn--in keeping both with his general opinionatedness and with his specific feelings of demoralization while compiling the dictionary in the run-up to its publication in 1755.
The Los Angeles Times goes with an impeachment run-up story.
In the run-up to Jiang Zemin's visit, there is a lot of China action today.