Below you will find example sentences with "term limits". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Term Limits in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: term
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 4
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.6 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "term limits" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 26.6 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 2005 constitutional term limits were removed, and for term limits for judges, president, two and year stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with short term, jail term, long term, short term, longer term and medium term, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with term limits
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Justice will serve a second and final term under the state’s term limits. (14 words)
Two-term incumbent Malcom Chester was unable to run again because of consecutive term limits. (15 words)
Prior to 2013, the president was elected for a 6-year term with no term limits. (16 words)
Des Moines, Iowa — One of our area legislators has drafted two bills — one calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution mandating term limits in Congress, and one calling for an amendment to the Iowa Constitution mandating term limits of legislators. (42 words)
Similarly, an effort by the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to establish a two-term limit was in 2015 due to opposition from The Gambia, then under dictator Yahya Jammeh, and Togo, whose constitutions contained no term limits. (40 words)
The group says that according to the last nationwide poll on term limits conducted by McLaughlin & Associates in January 2018, the issue has bipartisin support, with over 82 percent of polled voters being in favor of term limits. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Another issue when dealing with term limits that we grappled with at the Legislature is how long term limits should be.
Yeah, but when it comes to term limits, the problem is less the term limits than it is the structure of, say, congressional districts and the power of incumbency.
Des Moines, Iowa — One of our area legislators has drafted two bills — one calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution mandating term limits in Congress, and one calling for an amendment to the Iowa Constitution mandating term limits of legislators.
The group says that according to the last nationwide poll on term limits conducted by McLaughlin & Associates in January 2018, the issue has bipartisin support, with over 82 percent of polled voters being in favor of term limits.
Term limits – I will fully support current efforts by Ted Cruz, Mitt Romney and others to implement term limits.
Members of the Assembly are subject to term limits of three terms, and members of the Senate are subject to term limits of two terms.
The president is directly elected by popular vote for a five-year term; in 2005 constitutional term limits were removed, citation allowing a president to remain in power beyond the previous two-term limit.
Two-term incumbent Malcom Chester was unable to run again because of consecutive term limits.
Justice will serve a second and final term under the state’s term limits.
Similarly, an effort by the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to establish a two-term limit was in 2015 due to opposition from The Gambia, then under dictator Yahya Jammeh, and Togo, whose constitutions contained no term limits.
Under current law, Putin would not be able to run for president again in 2024 because of term limits, but the new measure would reset his term count, allowing him to run for two more six-year terms.
When the National People’s Congress (NPC) amended China’s constitution in 2018 to remove term limits for the positions of president and vice president, it left the two-term limit for the premier unchanged.
Mr Kabila, who took power in 2001 after his father’s assassination, is barred by constitutional term limits from standing for a third term in the December 23 vote.
Due to term limits, Sebastián Piñera did not stand for re-election in 2013, and his term expired in March 2014 resulting in Michelle Bachelet returning to office.
Johnson sent Congress proposals for amendments to limit the president to a single six-year term and make the president and the Senate directly elected, and for term limits for judges.
Prior to 2013, the president was elected for a 6-year term with no term limits.
According to Colmenares, it would be hard to sell to the public any constitutional amendment that would entail removal or the stretching of term limits.
But opponents of term limits say they have emboldened lobbyists who have more sway with inexperienced legislators.
DeWine said he supported term limits when Ohio voted to impose them in 1992 — over his wife’s objections.
First, term limits violate the basic democratic principle that voters should be allowed to choose their representatives.