Sentence examples for candidate up on from inspiring English sources

In an interview afterward, the young woman said that she planned to take the candidate up on his offer.

His wife said their daughter keeps the candidate up on pop-culture trends: "He certainly knew about the show".

I looked the candidates up on Google once.

He set up "crash courses" to bring candidates "up to speed" on these questions.

Seeing the candidates up there on the famous "Jeopardy" set as Mr. Trebek calmly works through the categories of information, firmly demanding that the candidates express their answers in the form of a question, could put the campaigners in a context that almost all of us have grown up with: "I'll take 'Sunnis Versus Shiites' for $600, Alex".

Neither Democratic candidate eased up on their barbs today.

For Best Director, I believe that Alejandro González Iñárritu will win, for "The Revenant" — it looks like art but rings like money — even though I think that the candidate catching up on the outside is Lenny Abrahamson, for "Room".

And although Mr. Obama's grandfather served in Patton's Army during World War II — a fact the candidate brought up on the campaign trail — his own exposure to the military was scant.

(It is difficult to imagine either candidate showing up on Charlie Sheen's Twitter feed partying at a hotel opening in Mexico, as happened with Mr. Villaraigosa. "I got pounded on that for 10 days," he said wryly, though he offered few regrets).

Trump has long straddled both sides, gliding from mogul to candidate, popping up on our screens as both an outrageous spectacle and the embodiment of our times.   .

It started in 2012 when Trump first announced he was a presidential candidate, beat up on Obama as an alien to become a political household name, and then drew grumbles and mumbles from that year's other crop of GOP presidential candidates about pandering to racists with his birtherism ploy.