candidature

Example Sentences

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“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

John Swinney is being nominated by Deputy First Minister Shona Robison, with the SNP’s deputy leader Keith Brown seconding his candidature.

From BBC • May 7, 2024

“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

“The Russian Federation would love to welcome him once his candidature would be officially announced.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2017

Their talk was of distant things, till it travelled round to the scene of Marese’s candidature, and finally fixed itself upon the great case.

From World's End A Story in Three Books by Jefferies, Richard