The phrase "a true candidate for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone or something that is genuinely suitable or appropriate for a particular role, position, or situation.
Example: "After reviewing all the applicants, Sarah emerged as a true candidate for the leadership position."
Alternatives: "a strong contender for" or "a viable option for".
If the applicant is not a true candidate for the job, do not interview him.
If there has been a true candidate for a Lin theme song, it has been "Nick of Time," by the Chinese-American rapper Jin, who briefly caused a stir of his own several years ago when he had an impressive run of victories on BET's "Freestyle Friday".
Border Patrol agents interviewing terrified nine-year-olds lack the capacity to determine who is a true candidate for asylum.
If campaigns are about generating votes and televised debates reveal the true candidate, for the first time America may have seen a glimpse of the real fire inside both of these men in contrast from what we have seen before.
When the story of Sister Leopolda's sainthood falls apart, Father Jude decides that Father Damien is the true candidate for sainthood.
When the daunting task was proposed to assign a Pokemon movie from the franchise's stirling history to corresponding songs, there was only one true candidate for the job: me.
Selecting the true candidates for pelvic exenteration is a difficult clinical dilemma in patients with recurrent cervical cancer after radiation therapy.
These features qualify the peptides to become true candidates for the treatment of microbial infections.
The high concordance (92%) between the FISH and real-time PCR results as well as the discordance between both of these 2 methods with the IHC assay, suggests that real-time PCR is more accurate in determining the patients who are true candidates for trastuzumab therapy.
Lines showing more than 90% resistant M3 plants as judged by good root growth and development of primary leaves were considered true candidate lines for no rna-directed transcriptional silencing (nrd) mutations.
Mr. Santorum was also backed by more voters who said it mattered to them a great deal that a candidate shared their religious beliefs (about 3 in 10 voters said so), and those looking for a true conservative candidate or someone with strong moral character.
