Sentence examples for candidate earning from inspiring English sources

In the election itself, he vanquished a breakaway faction of his own party and an independent candidate, earning his own scarred claim to leadership.

It is difficult to imagine a candidate earning the Tea Party label who is not against gay marriage or abortion, for the simple reason that no such candidate could exist.

Until now, Dr. Dean has enjoyed the benefits that come with being a guerrilla candidate: earning much attention with what he has described as his straight-talking ways, without the critical attention that has been focused on some of the other candidates.

In nearby Hartlepool, 30-year-old forge worker Shane Moore has made an early bid to be the Conservative candidate, earning the unanimous backing of the Tory executive committee in the traditional Labour stronghold, reports The Hartlepool Mail.

More from ABC exit polls: "Kasich reached second place as sort of the anti-Trump candidate, earning his best support among some of Trump's weakest groups….

It can examine, for instance, how much a candidate earns at a fund-raiser relative to how much he or she spends on catering, entertainment and facilities.

A June 23 profile of Ms. McFarland, by Cindy Adams in The New York Post, said that the candidate earned a master's at M.I.T.

It and the public it serves are entitled at the end of the exercise to an unambiguous vote count, instead of delegate numbers that camouflage how much popular support each candidate earned.

In 1796 the Federalist Party supported John Adams for president, but it split its vote such that Jefferson, the Democratic-Republican candidate, earned the second greatest number of votes, thereby securing the post of vice president (electors cast two ballots originally without designating a presidential or vice presidential choice).

The road ahead will not be easy; while her status as the first female presidential candidate earned news coverage abroad, her campaign remains almost invisible at home when set alongside those of frontrunners such as former Arab League chief Amr Moussa or Islamic scholar Mohammad Salim al-Awa.

The last summer release he starred in, The Manchurian Candidate, earned just $65 million domestically in 2004.