- a variation of candidacy.
candidature
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But if the court ruled that she must also wear an electronic tag for a year, then that – Le Pen herself says – would make her candidature impossible.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
“A public candidature and campaigning like the one that we have seen this year is highly unusual,” said Nina Graeger, the director of Peace Research Institute Oslo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
“The candidature will have its role to play in terms of jobs and growth in the Queensland economy once we have seen our way through the current crisis,” he said in a statement.
From Reuters ● May 22, 2020
I will post more from Lewis’s interview, which expands on an article he wrote for the Guardian earlier this month confirming his candidature, shortly.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2019
Things were going well for him, on his second candidature, when one morning it appeared in the newspapers that he had sent �10 to promote the election of Mr. Bradlaugh.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob
“Their candidatures have put the Olympic Movement in a win-win situation, with very little to separate the two projects,” said Patrick Baumann, the panel chairman and an IOC member.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 6, 2017
South African officials have said they are likely to bid, and Paris, Budapest, Istanbul and Melbourne are discussing candidatures.
From Chicago Tribune ● Jan. 8, 2015
“Two very interesting candidatures with a very diverse approach” is how IOC President Thomas Bach described them on Thursday.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 2, 2014
"Obviously this time it will not be somebody from Europe, so we will have to see what the candidatures are," European Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht told reporters last week during a visit to Geneva.
From Reuters ● Dec. 17, 2012
At a moment of embarrassment, Mr. Disraeli, in the course of one of his youthful candidatures, created a diversion in his favor by telling a knot of unruly politicians that he stood on his head.
From A Book About Lawyers by Jeaffreson, John Cordy
