Sentence examples for qualification for office from inspiring English sources
Republican leaders point to her ability to field dress a moose as a qualification for office.
This longing is almost always based on the illusion that compromise is separable from power, that political innocence should be the main qualification for office.
Republicans will still argue that Mr. Torricelli's highest qualification for office is the fact that after a long federal investigation, he was not indicted.
But a term limit, according to Mr. Emery; Mr. Lane Edward C. Wallacee, a former councilman and a lawyer; and two former city corporation counsels, Victor A. Kovner and Paul A. Crotty, is a matter of "qualification" for office.
During the election of 1848, frontier, log-cabin Jacksonianism had become so crucial to Presidential campaigning that a critic of the Whig nominee, Zachary Taylor, charged that his only qualification for office was "sleeping forty years in the woods and cultivating moss on the calves of his legs".
When I hear any candidate touting his or her business success as an invaluable qualification for office, I cannot help but envision someone who is eager to strip down government to its barest and most primitive form so that real business may grow unchecked and at the expense of the American people.
Mr. Leiter is reluctant to discuss his attributes or qualifications for office, but understands why he could be an attractive candidate.
Congress could enact a law that criminalized false claims by political candidates about their qualifications for office, or false claims about their opponents.
People forgot these qualifications for office, and he himself was not bothered to remind them.Equally attractive was his nonchalant, ever-hopeful attitude to life.
Ms. Kennedy emerged with Mayor Brown and answered a few questions about her qualifications for office, and about what she could do for Buffalo as a senator.
As for the candidates themselves, despairing of their quality, he suggests, half-seriously, that their qualifications for office be vetted before they stand.
