Sentence examples for protest candidacies from inspiring English sources

Nor is it obvious that the appeal of Naderite protest candidacies on the left is that different from Ashbrook-Buchanan tendency on the right — or, for that matter, the libertarian purism that inspired Ron Paul to temporarily leave the G.O.P. in 1988 over what he saw as the Reagan-era sellout of small government principles.

("A protest candidacy").

"But I want to make it clear that mine will not be a protest candidacy.

But he encountered fewer than a half-dozen pedestrians, who were overshadowed by dueling squads of supporters of Mr. Cuomo and Charles Barron, a city councilman from Brooklyn who is running a protest candidacy for governor with the Freedom Party.

There is the "Vote for me as a hilarious protest" candidacy, which is all very well for making a satirical point on election day, but doesn't help to hammer out that difficult budgetary allocation six months down the line.

But the quixotic protest candidacy was over, with Teachout claiming about a third of the vote.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was asked to run for president in 1967 and of course it would've been just a protest candidacy.

By comparing Obama's campaign to Jesse Jackson's campaigns from 20 years earlier, Bill Clinton was dismissing Obama as "the Black candidate" who was perhaps running a good protest candidacy but could not possibly expect to win the nomination.

He also had a falling out with his campaign adviser Álvaro Vargas Llosa (son of the novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who lost the 1990 presidential race to Fujimori), who began to advocate blank ballots to protest the candidacies of both Toledo and former president Alan García Pérez.

Thousands of Islamists converged on Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday to protest the candidacy of Omar Suleiman, left, who served as President Hosni Mubarak's spy chief, saying he would halt democratic reforms.

Lawyers have rallied against his military rule, while more than 80 legislators have resigned from the National Assembly to protest his candidacy, with almost as many others resigning from provincial assemblies.