The bureaucrats then plotted slow political death by 1,000 leaks.

Numbers like these mean political death, but so far Democrats haven't even tried to overcome them.

He died some days after the demonstration, becoming the first political death of the Second Republic.

"Reports of my political death were greatly exaggerated," she said.

I had no intention of dying the political death.

To suggest painful solutions in an election year is political death.

But is an endorsement from Al Gore the kiss of political death?

McKisson "had recognized that to lose the fight meant political death".

True, he has had less to lose than his counterparts, for whom failure probably means political death.

But sources close to the talks said that it had become clear that both sides intended to fight to the political death.