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/ˈvaɪsˌpɹɛzəˈdɛnʃəɫ, ˈvaɪsˌpɹɛzəˈdɛntʃəɫ/
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ADJECTIVE
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relating to a vice president or vice-presidency
Vice-presidential debates
How To Use vice-presidential In A Sentence
- Ms. Palin, 45, the Republican vice-presidential nominee last year, was supposed to serve through the end of 2010; she said she would cede control of the state to Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell on July 26.
- Scripted, sanitized and stripped of the unexpected by early anointment of presidential and vice-presidential nominees, they offer as few clashes of policies and personalities as possible.
- The disclosure was made just days after Palin was chosen as John McCain's Republican vice-presidential running mate in the presidential election.
- He was asked in May whether he would accept the vice-presidential slot.
- He should be offered the vista of a dignified retirement and the prospect of a vice-presidential library in Scranton, Pennsylvania, that 'absolute jerkwater of a town' where he was raised. TBD: A hyperlocal work in progress
- During the campaign, his vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden attracted attention for announcing that, in the first six months of his presidency, Obama would be tested on the international stage.
- But the focus now shifts to the race for the three vice-presidential slots, the next level down.
- No contrary evidence, no matter how overwhelming and uncontradicted, can alter this view: not the collapse in Palin's support in just five weeks in 2008, not the statistical studies that show her as the only vice-presidential nominee in history to have hurt her ticket, not her rampant unpopularity with American women, not her own flinching from a second encounter with the Alaskan electorate. Living in a fantasy world? No way!
- The second turning point came when the League of Women Voters decided to sponsor a debate between the vice-presidential candidates, the first ever. The Good Fight
- Of all the US surrogate candidates and vice-presidential hopefuls, none can touch his ability to charm voters.