The phrase "a more plausible candidate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing options or possibilities, particularly in contexts where you are evaluating the likelihood or credibility of a candidate for a position or role.
Example: "After reviewing all the applicants, we believe that Sarah is a more plausible candidate for the job than the others."
Alternatives: "a more credible option" or "a more likely choice".
Mr Jackson was a more plausible candidate two decades ago, but both men now sound stale.
By finally getting there in relation to Britain's future in Europe, he emerges as a more plausible candidate to lead it.
Mr Casini is a possibility, but a more plausible candidate for the leadership might be the present foreign minister and leader of the National Alliance, Gianfranco Fini.Mr Fini is certainly a man to watch.
Conversely, if the incidence of involuntary part-time work was uncorrelated with state unemployment rates, then the Affordable Care Act would be a more plausible candidate to explain the variation.
But he is a more plausible candidate than anyone Clinton is facing now, and perhaps the best answer to the fear that, as the Republicans fight it out among themselves, she will drift through until the convention, with a stray glance at Martin O'Malley, and enter the general election unprepared for the fight.
Both it and its descendants, so-called buckytubes, which are cylindrical molecules made of pure carbon, are still much admired, but they have not yet lived up to their promise.In truth, graphene does look a more plausible candidate for commercialisation than buckminsterfullerene.
Unless somebody new enters the race in the next few weeks — and it would have to be a far more plausible candidate than Perry, Cain, or Gingrich — Romney is a racing certainty.
But the worst that can be said of them is that they are marginal, not murderous.A slighly more plausible candidate would be an extremist movement.
Analysis of the linkage disequilibrium structure around the GWAS index SNPs revealed several other candidates, but these were not analysed due to a lack of expression in the prostate, a lack of convincing biological evidence for a role in prostate function or the presence of more plausible candidate genes.
Let's turn to some more plausible candidate accounts of the distinction, and where appropriate, the moral significance or insignificance of each account.
Mexico, though, with four wins out of four in World Cup qualifying as part of a 17-game unbeaten run, are perhaps more plausible candidates.
