And that was one of the reasons why the environment had slipped down the political agenda, with a general election approaching.
With next year's presidential election approaching, Mr Bush will want to avoid a grilling by an increasingly restive Congress that could further dismay voters.
With a general election approaching, the government will probably want to play for time, possibly by referring the issue to its own advisory council.
With the 2015 election approaching, so is the moment when MPs who've had enough will have to tell their local parties and set the process in train to find their successor.
Circuit, but Democrats in the Senate, sensing a victory in the approaching 1992 election, refused to let him come up for a vote.
As the financial crisis that unfolded on Wall Street last week moved to Washington, it's become a full-blown political war, fueled in part by the approaching national election.
Mr. Cuomo, a Democratic candidate for governor, denied that politics would drive the timing of a potential plea by Mr. Hevesi, the biggest in the long-running corruption probe, based on the fast-approaching November election.
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The opposition Conservatives say that if they win power at the approaching general election they will copy the Scottish system, in which people who are not convicted usually have their DNA removed from the database as soon as the case against them is dropped.
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The distractions of Russia's parliamentary election in December and an approaching presidential one in March may be partly to blame.
While Morris (66.7%) is quickly approaching the required 75% for election with two years of eligibility remaining, Bagwell has made a quantum leap to 56% of the vote after only his second year on the ballot.
The approaching fiscal cliff debate, while unlikely to take center stage until after the election, by all accounts will result in changes to programs that seniors rely upon.
As Mitt Romney has essentially secured the Republican nomination and we turn to the general election, entitlement reform will undoubtedly become an even larger issue that needs to be addressed seriously because we are approaching nothing less than a fiscal Armageddon.
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