Sentence examples for candidate to seize from inspiring English sources

In doing so, he became the first top-tier candidate to seize the Tancredo mantle.

"He would be the best candidate to seize this moment in GOP history, and the best-prepared to be president".

The changes to Labour leadership rules has weakened the power of the union vote, making it easier for a Blairite candidate to seize the crown.

The paper added that Mr. Huntsman "would be the best candidate to seize this moment in G.O.P. history, and the best-prepared to be president".

The fact is that the ground is so ripe for a candidate to seize the lead on monetary reform that one has to wonder why no one is stepping up.

Carson is not the first candidate to seize upon Republican voters' xenophobic fears.

Look for the candidates to seize the mantle of the man who is toughest on the issue.

Also at play will be efforts by the other candidates to seize the spotlight from Mr. Perry and Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts.

And with the Republican-controlled House voting to cut deeply into this year's federal budget and state capitals producing their own volatile showdowns, it has underscored the opportunity for potential candidates to seize on a fiscal-themed message to break out of the pack.

Lincoln Chafee, former Rhode Island senator and governor and self-proclaimed "block of granite" on political issues, has scrapped his presidential ambitions for 2016, leaving just three Democratic candidates to seize hold of the zero-to-one percent polling he enjoyed from supporters during his long-shot campaign.

It's perhaps fitting that last week ended that way for John McCain -- face to face, embarrassingly, with an angry supporter sputtering about Barack Obama -- given that he began it with a speech playing to the deep swamp of fevered innuendo about Obama as a "Manchurian candidate" out to seize the presidency and take down America.