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The word 'candidates' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a group of people who are competing for a particular position, such as a job, political office, or another kind of role. For example: "The candidates for mayor have begun campaigning for the upcoming election."
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All candidates will be notified as to the result of their application no later than 10 days post submission.
Please note that no correspondence will be entered into with unsuccessful candidates.
Intent on offering his condolences and meeting Abdullah's successor in person, Obama led an exceptionally high-powered delegation to Riyadh that included former secretaries of state, past presidential candidates and senior military commanders.
Drastic cuts in public spending any time soon, as proposed by several of these candidates, look wildly irresponsible given the headwinds the US economy is facing from abroad.
The most effective NHS boards are now planning for the number of leaders they will need in each area ; the qualities they will require of these leaders ; planning to ensure that diverse groups are properly attracted and appointed to leadership positions at every level; and attracting strong fields of candidates from clinical backgrounds;.
Now the Harlow MP's mandate will reach beyond policy to inform the way Tory candidates are selected, with an emphasis on diversity of class as much as ethnicity, and the way new supporters are signed up and engaged.
Kennedyesque is still the style, the demeanour, candidates for high office aspire to: slim, energetic, accompanied by a supremely elegant spouse.
"I'm not going to get into attacking individual candidates … but I do think we should be setting out Labour ideas for the future and not just saying suddenly the Tories are right about a whole series of things," she said.
There are many issues facing disabled candidates entering any form of employment.
Related: Liberal Democrat candidates support Tim Farron as the party's next leader One hundred and eleven Lib Dems who to stood for parliament on 7 May have put their names to the letter, which argues that the MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale is the best candidate to rebuild the party after it lost 48 of its 56 MPs.
And then there were the prospective 2016 Republican presidential candidates: Sens. Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz and Rep. Paul Ryan all voted No – a thousand times no.
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