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

A spokesperson told the BBC that Yeo had been granted a leave of absence from his PhD in 2019 and his candidature had now been terminated.

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2020

Clark made it to fifth place in the sixth ballot before her own candidature was killed off.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2018

“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