Sentence examples for candidate for elections from inspiring English sources
Castro had been a legislative candidate for elections in 1952 that were aborted by Batista.
(Reuters) IRAN: NOMINATION FOR KHATAMI -- The largest reformist party said President Mohammad Khatami would be its candidate for elections in June, increasing pressure on the hesitant president to run for re-election.
Now newspapers write about that and are on his case, why?" Meanwhile on Saturday, Mugabe, 87, was endorsed as Zanu-PF candidate for elections expected to be held next year.
The All Nigeria People's Party, the main opposition, chose Muhammadu Buhari, left, a northern Muslim from the Hausa-Fulani ethnic group and a former army general who took power in a military coup in 1983, as its presidential candidate for elections in April after all six other contestants withdrew.
A candidate for elections to Hull City Council has been left off some ballot papers.
Mr Sadr is staying a bit aloof: he says he will not be a candidate for election, nor will his main clerical aides.
In his letters, Mr. Leahy noted that independent counsels are prohibited from "running for nomination or as a candidate for election to political office".
Mr. Weber's appointment as chairman is subject to his election by shareholders at the annual meeting scheduled for May 3. Mr. Villiger, the current chairman, will not be a candidate for election at the meeting.
Twice unsuccessful as a Fianna Fáil candidate for election to Dáil Éireann (lower house of the Oireachtas, the Irish parliament), he became Ireland's youngest attorney general, serving in two Fianna Fáil governments (1946 48, 1951 53).
After King Sigismund II Augustus died (July 1572), Henry of Valois, duc d'Anjou and the future Henry III of France, emerged as the favourite candidate for election to the Polish throne.
In 1952 Thomson was defeated as a Conservative candidate for election to Canada's federal Parliament, but, in the same year, he was invited to buy The Scotsman newspaper and went to Edinburgh to run it.
