Sentence examples for candidate in search of from inspiring English sources

"He was a candidate in search of an office," said W. Michael Murphy, a Democrat who was the county prosecutor.

But after defeats in two of the most populous states, he also sounded like a chastened candidate in search of his lost moment.

The convincing victory by Mitt Romney in the Michigan primary on Tuesday means three very different states — with dissimilar electorates driven by distinctive sets of priorities — have embraced three separate candidates in search of someone who can lead the party into a tough election and beyond President Bush.

But in a twist devised to set up a second show, she was also offered a chance to double her money if she opted for a second chance at television exposure as the center of a new contest in which she would eliminate her own crop of male candidates in search of one who would be willing to choose her over the promise of $1 million.

Many of the genes in the sex steroid hormone metabolism pathway have served as "candidates" in search of polymorphic variants that predispose to EC.

We then started to explore the candidate region in search of genes that fulfilled these criteria.

But every time he shows up on television, we are reminded of a truth we learned during the last presidential campaign: There is something about Romney that causes people to want to change the channel; or, if they are in a senior center in Florida listening to a candidate forum, wander off in search of a second helping of Jell-O.

Pissed off, the two presidential candidates went to Cork in search of votes, but after the protest in Dublin, Cork hotels refused to host the confused motley crew, forcing them to have their last meeting in an empty computer repair shop.

These preliminary results would be a guide in the selection of potential candidates for further pharmacological study and in search of new drug candidate in treating MRSA infections.

The Black community was indeed in search of a candidate, but a consensus candidate was never found, so we had a compromise and condensed candidate.

Two such jobs that made that list are road testing Corvettes and other topflight performance cars years before they reach the market and visiting culinary hot spots around the world in search of candidate flavors for new ice creams.