Sentence examples for candidate occasions from inspiring English sources

Words could be said to have, rather than "meaning", a semantic potential, defined as the collection of past uses of a word w on the basis of which similarities can be established between source situations (i.e., the circumstances in which a speaker has used w) and target situations (i.e., candidate occasions of application of w).

I've seen numerous analyses that have questioned the importance of the endorsement on the grounds that The Union Leader has endorsed a losing candidate on many occasions (for instance, Steve Forbes in 2000 and Pete du Pont in 1987).

Murphree's name was floated as a possible gubernatorial candidate on several occasions, but he publicly disavowed any personal interest in elected office.

Reliability is the extent to which test results will be reproduced by different raters (interrater reliability), by a candidate on different occasions (test retest reliability) or by subsets of the same test (internal consistency).

In rare occasions, candidate elements can be assigned to multiple wells as per their ranks, which should also be recorded for further investigation (in our reverse genetic resource, these would correspond to premeiotic transpositions that get incorporated into more than one progeny and, therefore, more than one well).

He won 3.5m votes in the 1984 campaign, and ran again in 1988 when he won 7m votes - although he was not chosen as the Democratic candidate on either occasion.

The facts are that I wrote Haiti's Constitution myself, and, if I do say it, I think it a pretty good Constitution" -- giving the Republican presidential candidate, Warren G. Harding, an occasion to denounce the alleged "rape of Haiti" and other West Indian islands).

Harvey, a 24-year-old flame-throwing right-hander, ascended this season to baseball's loftiest tiers, starting the All-Star Game for the National League, hearing his name mentioned as a Cy Young Award candidate and, on three occasions, coming close to a no-hitter or perfect game.

As in all democracies, voters who feel the greatest economic stress are the least likely to read patiently through the policy arguments that more highly educated voters respect; they need to identify with a candidate — and, on rare occasions, even to trust and like him.

"Jessie came up with the idea, and we figured, 'why don't we be the [entrepreneurs] we're supposed to be?'" said McClain, the popular candidate who, on several occasions, single-handedly propelled his team to victory on The Apprentice.

A candidate who on multiple occasions demeaned and belittled immigrants, war heroes and their families, the disabled and most consistently women.