Sentence examples for about the candidacies from inspiring English sources

The very people who have opposed affirmative action — ostensibly on the basis that the most talented and experienced people should receive primary consideration from universities and workplaces — are enthusiastic about the candidacies of wildly unqualified individuals.

Rogge said it was important that questions be asked about the candidacies of Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo, given that the Olympic Games "are not organized in a vacuum" and that the 2020 Olympics will take place seven years after the host city is chosen by I.O.C. delegates.

The oddest thing about the candidacy of Bernie Sanders is not his aversion to fund-raising but his popularity with kids.

As a libertarian-leaning conservative I started this presidential primary cycle full of optimism about the candidacy of Senator Rand Paul.

Reformists have already raised questions about the candidacy of Admiral Shamkani, but the Council of Guardians endorsed the idea that an active military man could run.

Correction: May 30 , 2001 Wednesday Articles on May 17 and 21 about the candidacy of Bret D. Schundler for governor of New Jersey misstated the year he changed from Democrat to Republican.

In interviews around the country, voters were open and often blunt in their own feelings about the candidacy of Senator Barack Obama, and how their own backgrounds shaped their thinking about his possible election.

The oddest thing about the candidacy of Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator seeking Democratic nomination for President, is not his distaste for fund-raising, his insistence that he is a "democratic Socialist," or even his unofficial slogan, "Feel the Bern," a phrase that vividly recalls Jane Fonda at the moment of her disentanglement from the New Left.

Mr Stoiber is said to have called Ms Merkel and Guido Westerwelle, leader of the Free Democrats (FDP), "deckhands" who cannot hold a candle to Mr Schröder and Joschka Fischer, Germany's (Green) foreign minister.Yet the fight is not only about the candidacy.

New York City races have seen their share of attacks over the years — some far uglier than those that have cropped up this year, as when supporters of Abraham D. Beame sent trucks through white neighborhoods in 1973 blaring Latin music to frighten voters about the candidacy of Herman Badillo, or when inflammatory posters were circulated in 1977 questioning Edward I. Koch's sexuality.

An article on Tuesday about the candidacy of Andrew Unanue, a political novice who moderate Republicans in New Jersey say has the best chance to defeat Frank Lautenberg, a Democrat and the state's senior United States senator, gave the wrong year in some editions for a bid by Murray Sabrin, a conservative Republican candidate for the Senate seat, for governor as a Libertarian.