Sentence examples for conventional candidate from inspiring English sources

It's a story that hasn't made me the most conventional candidate.

If he was speaking on behalf of a conventional candidate, such behaviour could be severely damaging.

But if they choose a more conventional candidate they risk extinguishing the fire that lit up the mid-terms.

Romney is a more conventional candidate, backed by much of the Republican establishment in Congress, but over the course of the campaign he derided the eventual winner.

This form has severe limitations, but one saving virtue is that a conventional candidate, placed before an audience, almost always has something to say.

Romney is clearly preferred by the highest percentage of voters so using the conventional method of plurality, Romney, the most conventional candidate, is the clear leader.

That is despite a string of controversies that might have been considered catastrophic gaffes for more conventional candidates.

An uninspiring field of conventional candidates has been swept aside by an insurgent who breaks all the rules.

But political strategists said that outsiders can have an impact, especially when they expose the shortcomings of conventional candidates.

Meanwhile, negative campaigns funded by private donors and private interests are aiming at targets far beyond conventional candidates — among them intellectuals who have no official role.

He has shown himself impervious to the kind of criticism that would prove fatal to more conventional candidates, and another terrorist attack, like that in San Bernardino, could be enough to remove the qualms of those feeling queasy about his latest proposal.