office seeker
Example Sentences
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Once someone establishes a “reasonable suspicion or belief” that a candidate is not qualified, the burden shifts to the office seeker to prove otherwise.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2022
Mr. Clark became an office seeker in 1974, when, as a Democrat, he tried to unseat Senator Jacob K. Javits of New York, a Republican.
From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2021
With an electorate that often doesn’t know squat about a candidate’s qualifications, the office seeker often turns to someone the voter does know and uses that endorsement to win.
From Washington Times • Aug. 6, 2018
In 1881, President James Garfield was fatally shot by a disappointed office seeker, Charles J. Guiteau.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016
Carlyle of Inveresk found this worthless patron of the unfortunate office seeker 'more detested than any man alive, as a shameless political sharper, a domestic bashaw, and an intolerable tyrant over his tenants.'
From James Boswell Famous Scots Series by Leask, W. Keith (William Keith)
