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He would complete a term bogged down by bickering with Timoshenko and hampered by one of Europe's deepest recessions and strained relations with Russia, analysts said.

BusinessWeek.com -- 2010

Like his first presidential friend, Bill Clinton, whose second term bogged down in the Monica Lewinsky affair, he is dogged by a miniscandal of his own -- the so-called cash-for-peerages imbroglio in which donors allegedly gave big loans to the Labour Party in exchange for seats in the House of Lords.

I Did It My Way 2007

We also need a deeper view, or we shall remain bogged in the morass of cheap politics, which accounts for our present plight quite as much as bad economics-perhaps even more.

After The Crises—The Clean-Up 1962

His second term bogged down in disputes with the Legislature and seemed lackluster.

chron.com Chronicle 2011

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 2011

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 2011

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.

Thestar.com - Home Page Steven R. Hurst 2011

I’ve seen many a good title bogged down with comments like: ‘it’s not real if it’s not from Japan’ Perhaps if some authors were quick on the trigger to shoot down that nonsense, immature reviewers might dwindle away…but alas, this is asking for trouble, because even those truly critical of your work will avoiding saying so for fear Rice-Style retribution.

Deliver Me From Temptation, Temptation Being Amazon « Whatever 2006

But the process to extend his term became bogged down in a series of disputes that had raised an outside chance that Mr. Mueller's tenure would be briefly interrupted.

NYT > Home Page By CHARLIE SAVAGE 2011

And we have trouble getting artists out there because we're kind of bogged down by the American record industry.

What Music Is Hot Around The World? 2009