Sentence examples for candidate general from inspiring English sources

Although considered a candidate, General Wiranto, the armed forces' commander, has won neither the presidency nor the vice-presidency.

That fall the Republican presidential candidate, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, carried Massachusetts by 208,000 votes; but Kennedy defeated Lodge by 70,000 votes.

"In Sri Lanka this is further complicated by the fact that responsibility for many alleged crimes rests with the country's senior civilian and military leadership, including President Rajapaksa and his brothers and opposition candidate General Fonseka".

In the wake of a serious crisis within the armed forces over the succession to Geisel, Figueiredo defeated the hardline candidate, General Silvio Frota, who wished to end the gradual process of political liberalisation begun by Geisel.

Goldman's book may have had an impact on last November's presidential elections in Guatemala, when the candidate General Otto Pérez Molina, whom Goldman names as possibly implicated in the case, was defeated.

Though the party polled only 10 percent of the popular vote in the presidential election that year, it weakened the regular Democratic candidate in New York and contributed to the election of the Whig candidate General Zachary Taylor as president.

THE NEWS After a hotly contested Democratic primary, an inconclusive six-candidate general election, a runoff between the two top vote-getters and then a recount of the runoff, officials declared that Kasim Reed, a lawyer and former state legislator, had won the race for mayor of Atlanta.

The complaints are in line with the candidates' general opposition to federal authority.

It candidates general gained between 0.3 and 1.5 per cent of the vote.

"Instead of politicians following voters on policy, voters appear to follow politicians," he concludes in "Follow the Leader?" "Moreover, they appear to do so blindly…" following their favorite candidates even when they are ignorant about those candidates' general ideologies.

Aside from the supreme court question, one man did want to hear the candidates' general thoughts on immigration, a woman asked about Iran policy and another asked about the disparity in compensation between soldiers and mercenaries.