Sentence examples for candidate in waiting from inspiring English sources

Therefore, when a European is due to take over as head of some global organisation, like the International Monetary Fund, the French always have a candidate in waiting.

For the next four years, the news media will treat her as leader of the opposition (and presidential candidate-in-waiting).

Democrats in Iowa have reservations about Clinton, and are hostile to the idea that their role is simply to anoint the candidate-in-waiting whom they rejected eight years ago.

Past and current administration officials say that Mr. Summers has been the Fed candidate-in-waiting arguably since Mr. Obama was first elected, notwithstanding that the president renominated Mr. Bernanke in 2009.

But her leisurely pace around the fair, including a conversation with reporters for about 45 minutes, did not seem to suggest the busy schedule of a candidate-in-waiting. "I don't know if within the next couple of weeks I will be ready for an announcement or not, to tell you the truth," she said.

Recently we have pivoted from one conspiracy theory (the plot to hide our president's foreign birth) to another (the plot to frame Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the French banker and Socialist candidate-in-waiting known by his monogram and for his predatory eye for women).

The board wrote, "Being lieutenant governor mostly serves as a perch for gubernatorial candidates-in-waiting.

It was easy to tell the candidates from the noncandidates, and even from the candidates-in-waiting.

Still, the candidates-in-waiting are careful to avoid the impression of forgetting their real job, getting Mr. Kerry elected.

In recent months, many of the candidates-in-waiting have been actively cultivating the kinds of major donors needed to finance expensive presidential bids.

The candidate-in-waiting's debut even disarmed conservative blogger Erick Erickson, who tweeted: "I have to commend @HillaryClinton for her very awesome Twitter bio.