Downing Street's insistence that those who use the M25 orbital road around London could make or break Labour's election chances has meant that renewed emphasis has been given to road-building.
Wall Street was in rally mode Monday, after a reversal Friday that helped break the downward post-election momentum.
Correspondents say House Republicans do not want to appear to be obstructing a tax break for ordinary taxpayers in an election year.
And, New Hampshire, this election is your chance to break the stalemate.
But Ohio was the make or break state last time around in the general election.
But ahead of the 2003 assembly election, he made a similar break with the UK party with a speech contrasting Welsh Labour to New Labour's market-driven reforms of health and education.
With consumers still depressed, Mr de la Rua's Alliance is set for a drubbing in the congressional election due in October, and could break up as a result.
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They say Andres Manuel wants to break the law and change the outcome of the election, but it is they who have broken so many laws in order to "win".
For Barbie Snodgrass, who has a modest amount of stock in a retirement plan, the meltdown has turned this election into a make-or-break one, tipping her away from McCain without convincing her that she can trust Obama.
In the Watergate investigation, the Senate convened a select committee in February 1973 to investigate the Watergate break-in and other campaign irregularities in the 1972 election.
On Monday, the first day back to work for many after the Christmas break, the main parties stepped up the pre-election campaign with a row about tax and spending.
UKIP, which returned its first Welsh MEP at the last European election, said it was confident it would break new ground by taking one of the four regional seats in South Wales East.
The BBC's Paul Reynolds in Washington says the move is a break from the total opposition Mr Bush expressed during the election campaign, but is the most restricted one he could probably have taken given his pro-life position.
Obviously, here in America, the election of an African-American represents a stunning break with the past.
The New Flemish Alliance, which made the break-up of Belgium a central manifesto pledge at the election, said it had "fundamental remarks" to make about the proposal before continuing negotiations.
And yes, I know "recess" doesn't mean "holiday" but it has been a gruelling six months with a referendum and Assembly election, and most are looking forward to a break from term time, if not from political duties.
The first option reinforces the precedent of backing the stability of the common currency at any bailout cost but ignores the rise of German bailout fatigue in an election year, while the second option threatens to break that hard-fought stability apart.
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Hafidz requested that both parties be disbanded for engaging in money politics, but the election law says that can be done only if parties break campaign finance limits or turn a profit - not if they misuse funds or buy off voters.
The White House unveiled three new nominations to the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday, but the new names are unlikely to break a Senate confirmation deadlock that has paralyzed the campaign law enforcement agency since January.
Though the state's declining population lost two of its votes in the Electoral College -- it will only have 21 in the coming election -- Pennsylvania packs enough of a punch to make or break a presidential campaign.
This is a dramatic change for the Tories, marking a final break with Saatchi and Saatchi, the agency that worked on every Conservative general-election campaign from 1979 onwards.
Once Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty certifies Franken's election certificate, Democrats will have the 60-vote super majority needed to break a filibuster in the Senate.
Plaid's line is that Mr Jones is tired and needs a proper break after four gruelling years as a Minister and party leader, having fought referendum and election campaigns in the last six months.
At this point, McCain may need to remind the larger general election electorate of the maverick senator who more than once has been willing to break with the Republican establishment on issues such as taxes, global warming, campaign finance, immigration, torture and the execution of the war.
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Tully said gold prices can appreciate further, but she does offer some factors that could be stumbling blocks this quarter for the yellow metal, including a break in equity prices, weakness in the euro, the U.S. presidential election, improved U.S. economic data and a resolution to the fiscal cliff.
After the popular rejection of the proposed EU constitution in France and the Netherlands, the acrimonious break-up of budget talks in June, and multiple setbacks to economic reform (symbolised by the German election result), most European leaders were anxious for any budget settlement.
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