Sentence examples for failed candidates from inspiring English sources

Past failed candidates -- Carol Moseley Braun, Bob Dole and Howard Dean, certainly -- could reprise old stump speeches, all smiles now.

That was a reference to Mr. Golisano's loans of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the campaigns of two failed candidates for lieutenant governor, William Neild and Daniel F. Mahony, in the primary campaign.

His rival, Dennis Malamatinas, who headed the Burger King arm, briskly left to run the European operations of Priceline, an Internet firm.In Japan, where lots of big firms look (but do not perform) rather like GE, failed candidates for the top job are put in charge of the main subsidiaries.

So many failed candidates now seem to be staples of our national news diet, whether it's Sarah Palin with her "will she or won't she?" run for president; Al Gore, with his continuing campaign about climate change; Mike Huckabee, with his new talk-show career; or even John Edwards, with his fall from the op-ed page to the tabloid cover.

On being described as "a conservative of convenience," Romney managed to maintain the porcelain smile that he acquired a while ago in a reëducation camp for failed candidates run by Rudy Giuliani and Andrew Cuomo, two first-time losers who subsequently hit it big.

Each candidate elects itself to the start_work state with probability P while the other failed candidates switch to the start_sleep state.

And look what's happened – I have become as the press label me, "a failed candidate".

She was a perpetual winner in campaigns for class secretary, he a failed candidate for president.

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, the PRD's failed candidate in three past presidential elections, may run for a smaller party.

The point is, we'll never move ahead as a nation if we keep following a failed candidate.

Republicans perceive it as having delivered a failed candidate in John McCain, and having been complicit in unpopular things like the Iraq War, rising deficits and the federal bailouts.