1.   A crucial congressional election looms ahead in little more than a year, and its outcome is no less important than before.

2.   A presidential election was looming.

3.   But as another presidential election looms, the movie feels oddly out of touch with the electoral mood.

4.   But as the next presidential election looms, political considerations often push the White House toward more popular measures such as tax cuts, economic stimulus or monetary easing.

5.   Clinton, citing safety concerns and under heavy pressure from the Teamsters union as the election loomed, refused to open the border further.

6.   Elections are looming, here and in Russia.

7.   Rather than burden the reader with more neo-Kremlinology, let me pass along a revealing story told me by Yavlinsky as another inconclusive election looms.

8.   The fact that a difficult election loomed close obviously contributed to the calculation, though it also raised the stakes.

9.   The urgent need for this cover as a presidential election looms forced the compromises that finally got results.

10.   When policy becomes this entangled in partisan rancor, it usually means elections are looming.