Sentence examples for contender for mayor from inspiring English sources
But she added that without a doubt, "any serious contender for mayor would reach the limit".
Bill de Blasio, the city's public advocate and a leading Democratic contender for mayor, has a confession: He is a Red Sox fan, tried and true.
Christine C. Quinn, a leading contender for mayor, on Thursday became the first Democrat to put a television advertisement on the air.
Banning opposition candidates has become a new fashion in parts of Latin America: in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez's government has blocked the strongest contender for mayor of Caracas.
Ms. Quinn, a leading Democratic contender for mayor, rallied council members to adopt the unemployment bill by a vote of 44 to 4 last month.
And Mr. de Blasio's status as a possible contender for mayor in 2013 might make his actions seem like political opportunism — a way to go after a prominent Republican in Mr. Pataki.
And so when I went to speak to the remaining Democratic contenders for mayor the week before last, I learned that Fernando Ferrer had lost many friends.
Other potential contenders for mayor, including the City Council speaker, Gifford Miller, and the city comptroller, William C. Thompson Jr., are here for the convention, but were not invited to speak.
In 2001, some of the most powerful real estate moguls in the city pledged to raise $250,000 for each of the four Democratic contenders for mayor: Mark Green, Peter F. Vallone, Fernando Ferrer and Alan G. Hevesi.
It wasn't made any easier by a recent Marist Institute poll that showed Mr. Markowitz leading the list of Democratic contenders for mayor, with nearly 20percentt of the respondents selecting him.
While he tends to stress certain points more depending on where he is -- black churchgoers in Brooklyn hear about expensive groceries, older New Yorkers in Riverdale are told about bus services for the frail -- Mr. Green has hammered away at what he says is the most comprehensive record among the Democratic contenders for mayor.
