Sentence examples for ministerial contender from inspiring English sources

Turnbull suggested Shorten's comments were not fitting for a prime ministerial contender and could be "against the national interest".

The party leading the polls is the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), which has attracted scant attention since a primary election in December that saw its leader, Pier Luigi Bersani, chosen as its prime ministerial contender.

Modi, who ran Gujarat state from 2001 until a few days ago, had only recently been seen as a serious prime ministerial contender, and has long been considered a political outsider.

The rapid rise of this outsider from little-known provincial politician to a prime ministerial contender who launched an unprecedented effort to win himself the highest executive office in the land has rattled the Delhi power elite.

Some senior Labour party people said that promising to stand down might boost Corbyn further: they say some party members like the idea of a bit of radicalism for an interregnum, followed by a more plausible prime ministerial contender in time for 2020.

Paradoxically, the only prime ministerial contender constitutionally qualified to run in the US – Boris Johnson, who was born in New York – would almost certainly be ruled out by waist size, hairstyle and libido, which leaves Tony Blair as a rare Westminster high-flyer who could plausibly have won office in both countries.

Small wonder, then, that the prime ministerial contenders trod warily when a nonwhite woman in the audience raised the issue at the second of three televised election debates on Thursday.

The disjunction between votes cast and seats won is likely to be heavily out of kilter, another goad to voters already infuriated by the refusal of the two prime ministerial contenders to discuss openly the prospects for coalition.

Samsom has quickly emerged as a prime-ministerial contender due to his strong television performance in the campaign debates.

SNP deputy leadership contender Keith Brown has won ministerial support for the job, ahead of November's election for the post.

In a country of only 6m citizens there are some 33 parties and five prime ministerial candidates - with the main contenders, as more than one analyst has pointed out, less interested in their parties than in themselves and their own chances of seizing the prime minister's chair.