Sentence examples for offered himself as a candidate from inspiring English sources

Mr. Gillum, by contrast, has offered himself as a candidate of the left.

Mr. Ancram offered himself as a candidate who can unify the divided party.

In 210 the Romans decided to send reinforcements to Spain, but it is said that no senior general would undertake the task and that young Scipio offered himself as a candidate; at any rate, the Roman people decided to invest him with a command there, although he was technically a privatus (not a magistrate).

As a result of the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 the parliamentary constituency of Northwich was created and Brunner offered himself as a candidate for the Liberal Party.

Michael Smith, former director of Baxter Art Gallery at Caltech, stepped to the podium with a prepared speech and offered himself as a candidate for leadership.

At the British General Election of 1754, Fownes Luttrell was serving as High Sheriff of Somerset, which barred him from standing as a candidate to be a Member of Parliament; however Henry Shiffner, a merchant from London, approached him and offered himself as a candidate for the borough in his place.

Even Mr. D'Amore described that hope as unrealistic: Mr. Lamont can offer himself as a candidate or an honest broker on the budget, not both.

Although Boehner is hardly in the tradition of Henry Clay, Sam Rayburn, and Tip O'Neill, he isn't nearly as bad as some of the possible alternatives, such as Louie Gohmert, the Texas congressman who announced over the weekend that he would offer himself as a candidate for Speaker.

Muhammad took the picture, in 2005, at a gathering hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus, after Obama's star-making turn at the 2004 Democratic National Convention but before it was clear that the Senator would offer himself as a candidate for President when, in other words, the man was pure potential, unsullied in the eyes of hopeful Democrats.

Today, with a kickoff tour through early-voting Iowa, Thompson formally offers himself as a candidate for president, the highest ambition in American politics.

Early in the year another offered himself as a Republican candidate against Governor Napolitano, running essentially a one-issue, tough-guy campaign on Arizona's responsibility — whatever the feds did or failed to do — to control its own southern border.