Sentence examples for Weakest candidates from inspiring English sources

The weakest candidates are eliminated first; several rounds of counting are then required to assign the votes of the eliminated candidates to those still in the running.

Smallweed acerbically comments: But then they would run the risk of the two weakest candidates reaching the final, with their own man eliminated.

Wolfsgang Niersbach also recommended that preliminary technical reports should be used to weed out the weakest candidates for the World Cup.

Another common communication pitfall has to do with use of "we" and "I". The weakest candidates for C-suite roles used "I" at twice the rate of the rest of the sample.

He is the oldest and – on his own – one of the politically weakest candidates, but many analysts believe he has the current president's backing, because of their close relationship.

Holding primaries simultaneously also knocks on the head concerns that gaming will result in the weakest candidates being selected because Labour voters vote for the duffer in the Tory primary and vice versa.

Bill Clinton was by far the weakest candidate to become the inevitable nominee during the primary process.

Mencken wrote that Franklin Roosevelt was "the weakest candidate" at the Democratic convention of 1932.

So is Khatami the strongest or the weakest candidate the reformists could run in 2009?

Putting off membership for Bulgaria, now the weakest candidate, would require a unanimous vote of all EU member countries.

Still, Mr. Sugawara seems to be within range of defeating the ruling party's weakest candidate in the district, Setsu Shiga, Japan's Environment Minister.