How to Use presidency in a Sentence

presidency

noun
  • But the prospect of a lame-duck presidency looms large.
    Saskya Vandoorne, CNN, 10 June 2024
  • The White House wants to roll back tax cuts passed in 2017 during the Trump presidency.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
  • In 2010, Yanukovych won the presidency promising to sign the accords.
    Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
  • With the presidency comes the power to set the agenda for the G20 summit in November.
    Chuck Collins, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The summit is the first Biden has held during his presidency at the storied Camp David.
    Aamer Madhani and Darlene Superville, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • With The Atlantic takes stock of the Biden presidency so far and examines the challenges ahead.
    The Editors, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2023
  • In the early days of Trump’s presidency she and her friends were fueled by the same sense of outrage and mission.
    Sarah Ellison and Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The most convincing case against Biden’s presidency is the one Democrats themselves have made for it.
    Noah Rothman, National Review, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Next year the presidency will pass to Brazil, but thanks to its tech leadership, India will still be at the center stage.
    Emilien Coquard, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • If Donald Trump wins the presidency, the reservation plan could well be scrapped.
    Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • But Inkatha won only 10 percent of the votes, and his hope for the presidency evaporated.
    Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2023
  • But Biden managed to preserve the accomplishments of his presidency thus far from the GOP’s knives.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
  • Scott in recent weeks endorsed Trump for the presidency.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
  • That would be a huge departure from the positions taken by most Democrats in the opening days and months of Mr. Biden’s presidency.
    Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The firm said a Trump presidency is positive for the defense sector.
    Hakyung Kim, CNBC, 16 July 2024
  • Trump went on to prevail elsewhere, clinch the GOP nomination, and win the presidency.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Nauta would have worked closely with Trump in the White House and traveled with him, and continued to work for Trump after his presidency.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 9 June 2023
  • His reward: eight years as Bill Clinton’s vice president—and then in 2000 a hanging chad away from the presidency.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The share belonging to the presidency has increased even faster since Tshisekedi’s rule, Stearns noted.
    Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023
  • He was quickly sworn into office, second in line to the presidency.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Yet the question is a compelling one, because the presidency is never mentioned in the provision.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The former governor of Georgia won the presidency in 1976.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
  • There was a time, not so long ago, when those wearied and horrified by the presidency of Donald J. Trump could almost convince themselves that the man was gone.
    Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • At 43 percent, his approval rating in early June of his third year in office is identical to Biden’s at the same point in his presidency.
    Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • Only Jimmy Carter notched a lower average rating in Gallup’s polling at this point in his presidency, while ratings for Trump were about the same at 43%.
    Steve Peoples, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
  • He was invited as a guest to the first state dinner of the Biden presidency honoring French president Emmanuel Macron.
    John Fund, National Review, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The Socialist candidate for the presidency finds little to choose between the two old parties.
    Norman Thomas, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2024
  • In our polls-only forecast pairing Biden against Trump, the Democratic candidate needs to win the popular vote by just 1.1 points to win the presidency.
    G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 4 July 2024
  • During Biden’s presidency, that support has been melting away.
    Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 29 July 2024
  • Of the nine other candidates running for the presidency, his biggest challenger is a unified opposition movement that overcame their divisions to form a coalition known as the Democratic Unitary Platform.
    Tara John, CNN, 28 July 2024

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