How To Use Run for In A Sentence

Here, officials of the government-run Forest Department reportedly did not allow them to forage for food in the forests.
Opened in 2007, the family-run Forte S ā o Jo ā o da Barra is part of a small but growing band of hotels running countercurrent to the wave of mass tourism that has swept over much of the Algarve region during the past 40 years. Portugal's Alluring Hideaways
Rather Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, both discernably more open to Russian influence than Yushchenko (who was poisoned by unidentified assailants on the occasion of his last run for President), will face each other in the runoff. Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka: Foreign Affairs Roundup
The England captain is scheduled to run for the first time next week since a keyhole operation in December. Times, Sunday Times
A huge campaign will attempt to sweep away litter and graffiti in a fresh war on crime which is expected to run for a year.

A political activist for 25 years who has twice run for a seat in the U.S.
But he's pushing ahead: On Wednesday, Mr. Anwar vowed to run for parliament "imminently" in a by-election, with the aim of toppling the government by September. It's Déjà Vu for Malaysia's Opposition Leader
Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it. Rodney Dangerfield
Suddenly, he darts off on a detour and we had to run for another 20 minutes. Times, Sunday Times
This year is something of a trial run for the new service.
Air France in L.A. has a firm and continued hold on worst firearm service, although in recent years British Air has pluckily attempted to give Air Chance a run for their money. Flying with Guns
In haste, he fastens the door, then changes his mind and tries to make a run for it.
Leverage increases volatility as investors run for cover when they feel threatened and pile in regardless on the upside swing.
I have yet to discover that having been born when Cal Coolidge was gearing up to run for re-election confers any eminence upon this dodderer.
Ralph Nader announced his latest run for the presidency, amid press hoopla.
He is also planning to run for governor and has raised wagonloads of private money already.
Run for the doctor and knock him up.
The Ford Mustang GT, the Ford Mustang coupe and the rally-style Subaru Impreza WRX are just some of the thrifty speedsters that give luxury coupes a run for their money. The Fastest Cars Under $30,000
Bob was forced to leave the car at the roadside and run for help.
Can you assure the House that this is not a test run for flexible hours of work, to prove that it will not work?
The workshops will run for one and a half hours five days a week for one month at a time.
Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it. Rodney Dangerfield
Watson, however, was pleased with his effort as he was the only rider to give Cook a run for his money over roads he knows well.
I sprang into action and started to run for the hole but remembered too late the girl behind me.
I do the school run for all the children and it will be very difficult if I have to take the girls to different schools.
In fact you might just give a Bollywood 'maa' a run for her 'haath ka gajar halwa' : Winter comfort - Carrot Halwa
Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson welcomed the delegates, but still seemed like he did not want to run for president.
Men that run for a wager, (if they intend to _win_ as well as _run_,) do not use to encumber themselves, or carry those things about them that may be a hindrance to them in their running. The Heavenly Footman
The banking arm of Scottish Widows will announce a huge 72% rise in pre-tax profits tomorrow and claim it is giving high street rivals a run for their money despite thinning margins and cut-throat competition.
The bridge along the Oyamari Road would run for a distance of about 600 metres and the Highways Department has been sanctioned Rs. 28.50 crore. The Hindu - Front Page
�Emanuel is leaving the White House to run for mayor of Chicago, a job that he has long wanted. Obama Taps Longtime Aide Rouse To Replace Rahm
The funnyman lends his voice to a series of adverts due to run for three weeks. The Sun
In these perpetual lines and curves ran the asymptotical negotiation from beginning to end -- and so it might have run for two centuries, without hope of coincidence. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
He then ran for the senator and lost, so that qualified him of course to run for president, and he turned out to be the greatest president in American history.
The bilge pumps may have to run for hours and hours, just dealing with rain driven into a supposedly tight boat.
He has already stated his intention to run for election.
They've given some of the top teams a run for their money this season.
Included in these sections is the right to vote, the right to run for public office, and the maximum duration and sitting of legislative bodies.
By the way, JC, if you come to souther Illinois and run for public office you've got my vote. Democratic senator: Public health insurance option dead
The banking arm of Scottish Widows will announce a huge 72% rise in pre-tax profits tomorrow and claim it is giving high street rivals a run for their money despite thinning margins and cut-throat competition.
I felt mortified by my own klutziness, embarrassed by how uncoordinated I was and how many years older I was than the young things who could run for hours on the treadmills—and talk on their cell phones at the same time. CSS: Shaping the New You
Most courses run for between nine and ten weeks.
I dare say that had she briefed a silk in the first place she would have been acquitted and saved a large sum because the case would not have run for five days let alone five weeks.
As you get fitter you will need to run for longer up more stairs to feel this. Times, Sunday Times
She knows she must run for election in 2010, and the lass is running scared. Senator Gillibrand Relocates Rifles
The Japan House project, run for more than three years, aims to raise funds to construct a building that can be used as a general meeting place by international students.
These peopel are coming out of the woodwork, and what Americans fail to realise is exactly what were these peopel doing for the average citizen before they chose to run for election. Liz Cheney open to running for office
He himself chose not to run for re-election to the party in 1907, and he expressed the concern that ‘some of its leaders are becoming cowardly and truckling to priests and politicians.’
Here you have someone who is obviously a talented politician (if playing for the wrong team - the GOP, that is) and he can't be allowed to run for higher office because of the prejudices of a bunch of medieval lamebrains.
Obama should be looking for a VP. and making it VERY VERYclear to the super-delegates that should Hillary with the help of the supers steal the nomination then he Will declare and run FOR PRESIDENT as an independent Democrat and completely destroy any chance of a Clinton Whitehouse win. dsp, Santa Rosa, CA North Carolina superdelegate still undecided
If it looks as though countries with the biggest debt problems will be forced to leave the eurozone, run for cover. Times, Sunday Times
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - The Sultan of Yogyakarta, a revered Indonesian royal who has long harbored political ambitions, told an audience of thousands made up of princes and commoners that he would run for president next year. Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Suddenly, he darts off on a detour and we had to run for another 20 minutes. Times, Sunday Times
The hero is on the run for some vague crime against a technocratic society.
Suddenly a board member appeared and made a determined run for the electrical outlets. Christianity Today
The intruder crashed into a fence then got out and made a run for it, jumping over a fence. Times, Sunday Times
But when I walk out from the shore, tiny purple crabs run for cover at my first step.
The writer gives an astute assessment of a country run for the few at the expense of the many. Run by the Palsy-Walsy brigade.
Can't run for President and secede from the union at the same time. jldfarms Texas Gov. Rick Perry pulled out of conservative straw poll
As you get fitter you will need to run for longer up more stairs to feel this. Times, Sunday Times
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Areopagitica
A politician in her own right, she was courted by the Republicans to run for her late husband's senate seat.
The four-stroke cylinders do not have this oil coating and will rust when not run for long periods, just like four-stroke inboards do.
Tomorrow is the deadline for candidates who wish to declare their intention to run for Parliament.
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's decision to not run for another term prompted a call from someone else who's famous name is synonymous with the nation's third-largest city: Oprah Home
Am I just being stuck-up and judgmental, or should I take my legitimate concerns and run for the hills?
The police arrive, gunshots are fired and panic breaks out as the bus passengers make a run for the border.
After all, who needed these scarred old buffers in the new dot.com era that would run forever?
And for the last time cease and desist from sending anymore of these decrepitly incoherent four-hundred year-old fossils from its ex-vice presidency outpost who did not have the balls to run for president crapping all over the one who had the stones to seek victory and claim it. James Campion: 2010: Year of the Faux Revolution
He gets bored in a shooting house but he loves tromping into the woods, settling down next to the bole of a big tree and waiting the five minutes it takes for the squirrel that hid from you when you walked in to lose his wits and make a run for it. What Happened to Squirrel Hunting?
His characters have run for president, hacked the New York Stock Exchange and joined the occasional religious cult.
In the crush at Sardi's, a tiny figure broke through the crowd of adulators to tell Rodgers: ‘This show of yours will run forever.’
And seeing that I'm such a smart ass know-all, why don't I run for a seat myself and see if I can do any better?
This year is a trial run for the new service, before it is officially introduced in 2001.
Mr Brown did not want to run for governor of the state last year.
Having delivered this speech, standing and with great gravity, solemnly emphasizing the Latin words, and particularly rolling out the last ones with deep and swelling tones, Ben whirled a summerset, gave a shout, and, followed by the others, started in a run for the play-ground. Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p.
And while I am looking at health insurance, have you checked how long yours will run for?
Cafferty: What message would Palin send if she does not run for reelection? First on the CNN Ticker: RNC slams Obama in first TV ad
The local council has organized a two-mile fun run for charity.
One theory has it that the military did not surround and arrest them but instead flushed them out of the bush to run for cover and to disband and disperse.
I do the school run for all the children and it will be very difficult if I have to take the girls to different schools.
The fact that she maintained popularity amongst Democrats well before she announced her run for the nomination, leads one to believe that they wanted her to run.
Oh, and as for F&H, I will say this - whoever wants to run for it will need 2 things to gain candidature - the support and endorsement of MH and the hearts and minds of the large activist core within the association Michael Howard to Step Down
A helicopter hovered overhead as one of the gang made a run for it.
When his party's candidates for president and vice-president die suddenly, Mays is tapped by the party's mucky-mucks to run for president in 2004.
The initial print run for her book was 6,000 copies.
The local council has organized a two-mile fun run for charity.
Then he was on the run for four days before being captured. Times, Sunday Times
Then he was on the run for four days before being captured. Times, Sunday Times
Nancy Pelosi announced that she will run for House minority leader, sending her aides-de-camp into a reality show-like frenzy of back room alliance-building and strained showings of unity. HUFFPOST HILL - NOVEMBER 5TH, 2010
Same thing the bumbler did, why don't we here more about his abandonment of duty to run for president. DSCC links Palin to GOP Senate hopefuls
Initially, it would run for one year, a kind of trial period.
Interestingly, I heard just this morning on MPR that Franken, a native Minnesotan, is considering moving back to Minnesota (he currently lives in New York) to run for the senate in a couple of years. Al Franken « So Many Books
The project will run for a six-month trial period.
The Conservative Party's victory in April's general election persuaded him to run for President again.
The run for the presidency is no joke, rife with political chicanery, espionage and blackmail.
Before all you tizzies up and run for the old guy who can't even remember where he's speaking ... consider this, WOMEN. Clinton: No cause for alarm
Next time that crop-eared, chrome-coloured coolie shows against the sky-line, I run for a rope or something. Ambrotox and Limping Dick
It's believed 8 candidates will run for preselection.
He served on the council until 1979, when he decided not to run for re-election.
I refer to the first vice-presidential nominee in modern times to run for office without holding a single press conference. Times, Sunday Times
Sinclair had never held elective office, though he had previously run for governor on the Socialist Party ticket.
Later Joanne and her 24-stone husband Paul hobble into the gym mid-session clearly expecting this might be the big "whole team run for a group hug to celebrate overcoming adversity, in slow-mo with backing track You Raise Me Up by Josh Groban" moment. Grace Dent's TV OD: The Biggest Loser
With Gasol as Kobe's sidekick, we can expect a deep playoff a finals run for LA.
There are few more enticing bolt holes to run for than the one that says that all this effort and giving is counterproductive. Times, Sunday Times
Terren's staff sang out with a lamenting dirge, causing many men to cast away their weapons and run for safety, allowing Terren to cut down their abandoned comrades with his staff and short, erratic bursts of magic.
It's a subject whose passion for diagrams and abbreviations and formulae can give nuclear physics a run for its money.
She got motivated to run for Congress when her ideas about education were ignored.
He sees things, anticipates events, and often prearranges them; smells war if the secretary of the navy is seen to run for a street-car, is intimately acquainted with The Voice in the Fog
The only course was to plunge into the close-set thickets where riders could not follow. and run for the Severn.
Yet her body longed so sore for the springtide freshness of the grass, and was so bewooed of the flowery scent thereof, that though she durst not go unarmed, she did off her footgear and went stealing softly barefoot and with naked legs over the embroidered greensward, saying aloud to herself: If run for the ferry I needs must, lighter shall I run so dight. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
We're holding a tournament in the new ice-hockey stadium, as a trial run for next year's Winter Olympics.
Jeb is the only logical choice, he's already publicly said he wouldn't run for the seat. Crist will not appoint himself to Senate seat
The road has become a rat run for traffic avoiding the town centre.
He said the scam ‘isn't something I want to do long term… but if it can help bootstrap something nice for the community, I'm willing to let it run for a little while.’
But just as the Queen was about to arrive in her carriage a thunderstorm broke, forcing everyone to run for cover.
MIKE HUCKABEE, FORMER GOVERNOR OF ARKANSAS: Now, if you think that 108-year sentence is an appropriate sentence for a 16-year-old for the crimes he committed, then you should run for governor of Arkansas. CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2009
Come, croppy, come, croppy, I'll give you a run for your life. The Northern Iron
For that reason, it is customary for governors and senators to run for president only after they have won re-election.
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Archive 2006-01-01
Wie said she was trying to make a run for the money in the last round, and she wanted to win this year.
I'm guessing Bai is referring to Brown's last run for President, where he did run as an outsider and had some progressive things he was pushing for, but also advocated some highly unprogressive ideas like a tax plan that included a flat tax and a value-added tax, written for him by Reagan adviser and supply-side guru Arthur Laffer. Mike Lux: A Modern Populist Movement
And he has seemingly invited members of the Council to send him legislation that would allow them, the mayor, the comptroller and the public advocate to run for three full terms rather than two.
The President has let it be known that he does not intend to run for election again.
It is expected that the incinerator would run for about ten hours a day, and tankage on the test system is designed to mimic the highs and lows of use in terms of grey water higher at the beginning of a shift, when more people are taking showers and washing, for example.
She dove under and looked at the muddy bottom, stirring it up and watching the little shelled animals run for cover.
He gave up three runs and nine hits but singled home the Pirates' first run for his first RBI of the season.
The project will run for a six-month trial period.
There are few more enticing bolt holes to run for than the one that says that all this effort and giving is counterproductive. Times, Sunday Times
Especially since I had to do a mail run for dad, buy a new watch, buy gloves for swordfighting tonight, get my car inspected for rego ... sheesh! Waaaah! I want a wife!!!!
Government is broken and the only way to fix it is to force all of the self-servient Alpha-Hotels out of office and by Citizens Voting to Introduce a new A NEW AMENDMENT (the 28th ) that would limit their terms in office to only two (2) consecutive terms and then they must leave and then noot be eligible to run for office for four (4) years. Broken Government: Congressional pension plans
For the Brown camp, however, the reasons for the froideur are clear, and traced meticulously back 20 years, during a meeting in a Soho restaurant when Brown was preparing to run for the chairmanship of the Scottish Labour party.
It was on that frazil ice, that some people called lolly, that I meant to run for my life now, trusting to the resistance of the two feet of snow that lay on the lake in the mysterious way snow does lie on lolly, and to the snowshoes on my feet. The La Chance Mine Mystery
The former French foreign legionnaire, who authorities have linked to a Belgrade mafia group, had been on the run for a year.
Debbi …. .the alian son of Bird …. run for your lives! Think Progress » Sen. Byrd Undermines GOP Talking Point That He Opposes Reconciliation
Despite the safeness of so many seats, public officials still spend half their time fund raising - in case they either run for re-election or for another office, or perhaps to help out a friend in the next election.
He need not run for president because he can do more damage as veepee .. Think Progress » Cheney takes a nap.
He made an unsuccessful run for governor in 1998.
The competition is planned as a dry run for the World Cup finals.
The fox by now had run for cover, but each hole he went to was of course filled in.
They can do it at the voting booth every 4 years, but it's the same old cronies that run for office.
JD Hayworth may give McCain a run for his money and JD is as throwback as they come. Think Progress » Hawaii considers legislation to ignore birthers.
That is, all candidates run for office under their own recognisance in a single election often with run-off provisions if no one wins a majority on the first round with no party affiliations listed. City Official Uses Office to Quash Website - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState
The poetry press I had run for about twenty years was in abeyance but submissions continued to arrive and one day I got this.
‘After conferring with my colleagues, several of them asked me to run for chair,’ he said.
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's (D) surprise announcement Tuesday that he will not seek another term spurred widespread speculation that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will run for the job. Home/News
MIKE HUCKABEE (R), FORMER ARKANSAS GOVERNOR: Now, if you think that a 108-year sentence is an appropriate sentence for a 16-year-old for the crimes he committed, then you should run for governor of Arkansas. CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2009
Mr Brown did not want to run for governor of the state last year.
The trial is due to start today at Reading Crown Court and is expected to run for four to six weeks.
Florida Rep.blican Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart says will not run for an 11th term Fla. 's Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart will not run againMIAMI - U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida says he will not seek another term this fall, stepping aside after two decades in office. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
The local council has organized a two-mile fun run for charity.
The road through our village has become a rat run for commuters trying to avoid delays on the A14.
The six-coach fully air conditioned train will run for six days in a week, barring Tuesdays.
Traffic had to stop and wait while the cowman, wobbling on his bike with a stick in hand, would have to round up the odd cow that tried to make a run for it. Family life
But Gudrun forgat not her woe, but brooded over it, how she might work some mighty shame against the king; and at nightfall she took to her the sons of King Atli and her as they played about the floor; the younglings waxed heavy of cheer, and asked what she would with them. The Story of the Volsungs
The competition is planned as a dry run for the World Cup finals.
Now the Suffolk county town is giving its old rival a run for its money. Times, Sunday Times
One of their dicta was that no specific bonus scheme should be allowed to run for more than 18 months. Times, Sunday Times
To come back and renege on her promise, on her vow, and want to run for a second term, I think a true leader should not be a dribbler. Liberian Opposition Candidate Johnson Back on Campaign Trail
The local council has organized a two-mile fun run for charity.
He was the first of all candidates to announce his run for the White House.
Last month, the Sunreported that Goodman is considering making a run for governor in the Silver State after he exits his current post in July: Las Vegas Mayor: Showgirls 'Take My Arm,''Hold My Gin'
The exhibition will run for an extra week, due to popular demand.
Former Sen. Bob Kerrey said Tuesday he will not run for the Nebraska Senate seat he gave up more than a decade ago, shutting down hopes for a bid both parties called Democrats' best chance to hold the seat but that Kerrey himself described as a longshot. The Seattle Times
The intruder crashed into a fence then got out and made a run for it, jumping over a fence. Times, Sunday Times
As Dean has shown, the best way for an outsider to prove his readiness for prime-time politics is to run for the White House with unflagging determination.
In September a sirocco blew out of Africa, and a Venetian galleass made ready to run for the Adriatic. Asimov's Science Fiction
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie today announced that he will NOT run for president in 2012 -- a fact Christie had previously tried to prove by threatening to commit hara-kiri on national television. HUFFPOST HILL - Dems Promote Dem Bill By Making It Less Dem-y
Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it. Rodney Dangerfield
SHAPIRO: That's NPR's Scott Horsley, speaking with us from the White House about the president's formal announcement that Rahm Emanuel is stepping down as White House chief of staff, presumably to run for mayor of Chicago, and that Pete Rouse will be his interim replacement. Obama Announces Rahm's Departure
It should be said that the carted deer run for a much shorter distance than the deer on Exmoor.
This 75,000 candlepower monster is contained in a 12-inch machined aluminium case and will run for up to an hour on one charge.
And because credit unions are run for the benefit of their members, a borrower may get a rebate at the end of the year if the credit union is in surplus.
It's exasperating to run for a train and then miss it by half a minute.
The sort of people who run for elective office just don't do that sort of thing.
As the lone Democratic contender who has run for president before, Gephardt instinctively understands the vital role that self-definition plays in the campaign.
Obama also will run for re-election in 2012 and does not want to see his campaign for a second White House term bogged down in another nasty political fight over increasing the country's borrowing limit. NPR Topics: News
The gorilla had to run for its life, tangled in the sheet, while trying to tear off the mask. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
He was already preparing his run for the presidency.
It would give a superbike a run for its money. Times, Sunday Times
In the bright water into which he stared, the pictures changed and were repeated: the baresark rage of Goddedaal; the blood-red light of the sunset into which they had run forth; the face of the babbling Chinaman as they cast him over; the face of the captain, seen a moment since, as he awoke from drunkenness into remorse. The Wrecker
He resigned last year to run for the Elysée. Times, Sunday Times
Now it has finally been re-released on a limited run for its 30th anniversary.
A street vendor whose stall is only a few metres from where the truck crashed into a shop and finally came to a halt, said ‘A bang or a car hooter still makes me run for cover’.
If they would just unloose her ankles, perhaps she could make a run for it. Shameless
The script fits Steve Forbes, whose self-financed run for the Republican presidential nomination is raising hopes and hackles.
We're holding a tournament in the new ice-hockey stadium, as a trial run for next year's Winter Olympics.
He's run for local office seven times since 1981, generally on a platform of government waste, overspending, corruption, and mismanagement.
Beginning with an inspiring foreword from the late William F. Buckley Jr., the first story begins simply about a man and his boat; having traveled the seas many times over, he is a skilled seamen but on this particular day there’s a storm that will give him a run for his money and leave his beloved boat in pieces, while he barely escapes with his life. 2010 March 10 « The BookBanter Blog
They want to use their pace to run forward and get past the back line. Times, Sunday Times
We're going to give the other candidate a run for her money.
The gels were run for 20 hours using switch times of 5 to 45 seconds ramped in a linear fashion.
Either that or he should be left to fulfil his own ambition and run for president in 2020 in peace. Times, Sunday Times
Here is the thing, I agree with you on everything you say, and I wish you could run for something, because I would intern for you, not that it wouldn't be sketchy interning.
You run for five seconds, fall down and then everyone gets together for a group hug.
During a political party's election primaries, its best talent is selected and nominated to run for public office.
It's a subject whose passion for diagrams and abbreviations and formulae can give nuclear physics a run for its money.
By the time I was done with cardio I felt okay about only doing forty minutes because I’d run for over an hour that morning and moved to the mats on the floor to begin the glorified sit-ups they call Pilates, I noticed my brother still standing in the corner. Unbearable Lightness
November 25th, 2009 2: 23 pm ET lou dobbs has become a bloviator, gas bag, losing all credability. hopefully he will run for office and truly find out what the american people really think of him Fueling speculation, Dobbs appears to soften on key issue
Maybe it is time to find out where a man who has less than two years in Congress and gets so much glout to run for President and become the Nominee for the Democratic Party which has stayed in office for more than 7 years and has done nothing to progress this country or bring it together. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines

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