Sentence examples for instead of candidates from inspiring English sources

Someone filling out a ballot, but instead of candidates' names, every single option says "Status Quo".

Then in the 1980's, politicians discovered the soft-money loophole, through which donations could flow to parties instead of candidates.

Because instead of candidates being able to -- independent members within each party being able to appeal to their political party, they have to appeal to interest groups to help make up funding gaps that they -- may occur in any particular election.

Television commercials have reverted back to pitching products instead of candidates and issues.

The pathway gene method is a combination of both methods; instead of candidate genes, candidate pathways are selected based on the pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic behaviour of a drug.

One can also use advanced visualization or network biology techniques such as [ 21][ 22] to model and monitor global patterns of changes in proteomics, instead of candidate biomarkers at the individual protein level [ 23].

The Chamber of Commerce can now run an ad that says, "Vote for Candidate A," instead of "Tell Candidate A that high taxes aren't very funny".

Instead of participating candidates agreeing to spending limits that are impossible to calculate today because of unlimited outside money, candidates are required to abide by substantially lower contribution limits.

Most people talked instead of the candidates' characters, their backgrounds, their personalities.

But instead of choosing candidates to appeal to the extreme wings of their parties, he said, the Democrats and Republicans seemed destined to choose moderates in Senators Barack Obama and John McCain.

This can happen in the form of an assembly democracy or by initiative and referendum with ballot voting, with direct voting on issues instead of for candidates or parties.