Last week, Conservative MPs on the committee sought to block the Lib Dems' preferred candidate for the role of the head of the Office for Fair Access (Offa).
It's also been confirmed that Les Ebdon, Vince Cable's preferred candidate for the job of university access tsar, has been vetoed by a parliamentary committee.
Campaigning for Ethel Chen, his longtime friend and preferred candidate for the City Council seat in Flushing, Irving Langsner, straight-backed and sharp-tongued at 90, has been knocking on doors, offering these instructions: On Primary Day look for "Cohen" on the ballot, but without the O. "Vote for Chen.
Good luck to Rona Fairhead, the preferred candidate for the chair of the BBC Trust.
American officials assert that they do not have a preferred candidate for prime minister.
After all, that airline is not the preferred candidate for United.
He was, after all, their preferred candidate for President, winning sixty-two per cent of the rural vote in 2016.
Previously, there was only one, for a party whose leader was implicitly the preferred candidate for prime minister.
And there was more of the same today, as the 2010 captain identified José María Olazábal as his preferred candidate for the 2012 captaincy at Medinah.
It's even odder to think that he initially wasn't the preferred candidate for the dual position of cantor of St. Thomas Church and music director of Leipzig.
That's why the announcement that a Tory MP and former chief executive of the Conservative party, David Prior, is the government's "preferred candidate" for its chair raises concerns.
