Sentence examples for backing one candidate from inspiring English sources
The unions are no longer to be responsible for the despatch of the ballot papers and will be debarred from sending literature backing one candidate with the ballot paper.
Representative Eliot L. Engel is turning the bitterness of his divisive re-election campaign last year into a deepening role in the political turf wars of the Bronx, backing one candidate after another against the borough's Democratic machine.
So if 24 states backed one candidate, 21 backed another, and 9 did not vote because their members split, no one would be elected, and the House would keep on voting until someone won.
Based on an unlikely scenario in which Labour, the Lib Dems and Greens make a full alliance across all seats and convince all their voters to back one candidate, the Conservatives would still have a majority of around 64 MPs.
Late Wednesday night, young men backing one opposition candidate, Isa Gambar, brawled with the police outside his headquarters, causing a number of injuries.
Democrats, rather than coalescing, took months to officially back one candidate, businessman Rouda — and did so only after initially encouraging stem-cell entrepreneur Hans Keirstead to enter the race.
Abboud said in an email that Adelson would only back one candidate in the primaries and that he hadn't picked his choice yet.
Note, however, that all of the polls have been conducted either by partisans backing one of the candidates or by firms conducting automated interviewing that is barred by federal law from dialing mobile phones.
President Rajoelina's decision to back one of the candidates has been controversial, with many accusing him of bias.
Since they could not come to an agreement at the January meeting, Democrats from the 49th District will be voting at the convention on whether to back one of the five candidates seeking the party nod.
Although most of the members of the congregation supported the candidate I backed, one member in particular was opposed to him.
