Sentence examples for candidate engaged from inspiring English sources

"Cookiegate," as the bakery itself is calling the brouhaha, began as Mr. Romney sat down at a picnic table with six couples from suburban Pittsburgh to talk about the economy, a campaign event intended to capture the Republican presidential candidate engaged in casual conversation with ordinary Americans.

"Cookiegate," as the bakery itself is calling the brouhaha, began as Mr. Romney sat down at a picnic table with six couples from suburban Pittsburgh to talk about the economy, a campaign event designed to capture the Republican presidential candidate engaged in casual conversation with ordinary Americans.

The conclusion to be drawn from all this is not that one candidate engages in more fearmongering than the other.

Often, the candidates engaged in delicate balancing acts.

(Did anybody notice that the Democratic candidates engaged in a substantive debate on religion on April 13th?) "Elitist, out of touch and, frankly, patronising," says Hillary Clinton.

On Tuesday, with the help of translators, the two candidates engaged in a lively debate for Spanish-language radio and television.

For all the serious talk about serious issues, what the candidates engaged in tonight was largely an exercise in image repair and image improvement.

With the field of candidates now down to four and Saturday's primary fast approaching, the candidates engaged in intensely personal verbal combat fittingly set in a sports coliseum.

But under questioning from Mr. Blitzer and an array of conservative and neoconservative officials from past administrations now affiliated with the other sponsors — the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation — the candidates engaged in a number of spirited debates among themselves.

The other candidates engaged to a varying degree in a little conversation as they left the stage — none more than Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, who is now ahead of Mr. Romney in some polls.

"At a time when a growing number of analysts ponder the decline of the United States," he wrote in the French newspaper Le Monde, the candidates engaged in "self-persuasion, to insist on the 'necessary' character of American power".