The phrase "appoint a candidate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of selecting or designating someone for a specific role or position.
Example: "The committee will meet next week to appoint a candidate for the open position."
Alternatives: "designate a candidate" or "select a candidate."
Mr. Paterson will appoint a candidate of his choosing.
Despite a constitutional deadline to choose a president, who would then appoint a candidate for prime minister, within 30 days, Parliament had delayed the next session until Tuesday — and now indefinitely.
Henry II Jasomirgott and his wife, Theodora, a Byzantine princess, were granted succession through the female line and the right, in the event of the premature deaths of their children, to appoint a candidate for the succession.
Mr Blagojevich's corruption may have placed a permanent taint on the idea of a governor juggling favours to appoint a candidate of his chosing to a position as powerful as senator.(Photo credit: AFP).
Governor Ventura had originally said he would appoint a Democrat to finish Mr. Wellstone's term, but after the memorial service for crash victims on Tuesday morphed into a partisan political rally, he said he was inclined to appoint a candidate without a recognizable name, very likely from his Independence Party.
Pope Gregory V, however, would not appoint a candidate without royal permission, which neither of the monks had.
PARIS — A powerful Iranian clerical body appointed a candidate backed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as its new chairman on Tuesday to replace former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, state media reported, strengthening the hand of hard-liners seeking to silence dissent.
Sam Daws, a UN expert at Oxford University and a former aide to Kofi Annan when he was secretary general, said: "Key council permanent members will again play a definitive role in appointing a candidate with whom they feel they can work well.
But, in the end, chairman Lord Patten and the BBC Trust have, in George Entwistle, appointed a candidate who has appeared in the top line of reports since Mark Thompson announced his departure.
The criminal complaint quotes Mr. Blagojevich as saying at one point that Mr. Obama's aides were not willing to give him anything more than "appreciation" in return for appointing a candidate they favored.
I wrote in my book that emissaries purporting to be from the Obama camp had offered my chief of staff that they were going to raise a whole bunch of money for me around the country if I appointed a candidate that they were interested in.
