Sentence examples for put forward as a candidate from inspiring English sources

By then, he was being put forward as a candidate himself, and the murder charges, universally regarded as politically motivated, caused an international outcry from human rights organizations.

Tensions escalated further after a testy television exchange between Mr. Hamdi and Ennahda's party secretary, Hamadi Jbeli, who has been put forward as a candidate for prime minister, according to news reports.

Prince Zeid was also put forward as a candidate for UN Secretary General almost a decade earlier when the current UNSG Ban Ki-moon was elected for his first term.

"A lot of things we were putting forward as a party and I was putting forward as a candidate in a positive manner about redistribution of wealth and trying to do something about long-term unemployment and increasing the minimum wage and the living wage.

Former poet laureate Andrew Motion, whose name was put forward as a possible candidate, ruled himself out of the running, as did poet, critic and author Blake Morrison.

With Kieren Fallon sinking deeper into a morass of controversy, the loyal lieutenant in the stable that is Heffernan has been put forward as a persuasive candidate for the job.

Various candidates were put forward as a possible wife for Ernest.

The party was so anxious to win the seat that it put forward as its candidate Arlene Foster, who is a minister in the executive.

Background: A former left-wing guerrilla who was tortured under the 1964 military dictatorship and later became an economist, Rousseff was put forward as the candidate of Lula's left-leaning Workers Partyy in 2010 and won handily.

He is said to oppose a third term for Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, though by some accounts he is prepared to cooperate with whoever the the mainly Shia Iraqi National Alliance put forward as its candidate.

Based on the Va phenotype, TRPML3 has been proposed to play a role in hearing and balance and the channel has been put forward as potential candidate for the hair cell mechanoelectrical transduction channel [22].