He is Armani's clothes horse around Milan, even if he does rather nakedly voice his candidature to one day replace Alex Ferguson as coach and manager of Manchester United.
In 1870, when the Hohenzollern candidature to the Spanish throne was leading to the Franco-German War, William was far more cautious than Bismarck; during the war, he arbitrated between his chief advisers, Bismarck and Helmuth von Moltke.
It is ironic that France and the UK were the ones who proposed Hammarskjöld's candidature to the UN secretary-general post in 1953, probably seeing him as a skilled bureaucrat but politically weak.
This week Joseph Ralston, an air-force general now serving as the vice-chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, withdrew his candidature to succeed the army's General John Shalikashvili when he steps down from the top job in September.
Related: Le Pen family feud is a battle for the soul of the Front National – and France In an interview with the centre-right Le Figaro newspaper on Monday, Le Pen, who had threatened to leave the political ring "only at the end of the bout, whether victor or vanquished", seemed almost conciliatory as he said he would withdraw his candidature to avoid further damage to the party.
France has claimed the support of China for Lagarde's candidature to the IMF top job, though China has made no official statement openly supporting her.
When Klein resigned the party's leadership in 2006, Stelmach was among the first to present his candidature to replace him.
You must complete all the information such as personal information, work experience, language and skills, academic qualifications; in order for your candidature to be properly evaluated.
In 2014, Brazil's candidature to host the event was successful and Brasilia was selected as the host-city for the event.
A more genuine fear is that candidatures designed to appeal to the giggling tendency might do rather too well, like the monkey who ran for the mayoralty in Hartlepool.
