Sentence examples for left to run for from inspiring English sources

In 2005 he left to run for safe Conservative seat of Surrey Heath.

He again resumed his legal career, but in 2010 he left to run for the Senate.

He served in that body from 1985 to 1990, when he left to run for the U.S. House of Representatives.

The lawsuit focuses on events that are said to have occurred after he left to run for mayor in 2001.

(Suskind quotes an anonymous adviser saying that had Emanuel not left to run for mayor of Chicago, "he would have been fired" — which Emanuel of course denies).

He will become a partner at Shipman & Goodwin, a Hartford firm where he was an associate before he left to run for state treasurer in the 2002 election.

Two commissioners are leaving to run for Kay Bailey Hutchison's United States Senate seat in 2012.

And Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, is contemplating leaving to run for mayor of Chicago, adding to the expectation of a postelection shake-up.

Despite the university's growth in recent years, Mr. Kerrey said he was still considering leaving, to run for the Senate from Nebraska in 2008, and he said he had talked to his trustees recently about the possibility.

The constitutional court in Burundi has given President Pierre Nkurunziza leave to run for a third term in office.

He shared an anecdote about the day a subordinate in the District Attorney's Office named Ed Rendell told him he was leaving to run for office.