Sentence examples for sponsoring candidate from inspiring English sources

THE NEWS The venerable League of Women Voters, perhaps best known for sponsoring candidate debates and issuing voter guides, has begun flexing its muscles.

For decades, the Brotherhood has also played an open role in political life by sponsoring candidates who formed a minority bloc of the Parliament.

They have little interest in sponsoring candidates for office, or in answering to traditional leaders who tend to craft an agenda and pass it down for ratification.

With no chance of a union job under Mr Hogarth, Mr Prescott was lucky to replace ageing commander Harry Pursey as the union sponsored candidate for safe Hull East.

Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell spoke at a GOP sponsored candidate forum in Newark, Delaware, Wednesday and accused the "liberal media" of enacting a campaign of "character assassination" against her, CNN reports.

They want corporations to be able to sponsor candidates and parties directly while claiming with a straight face this would not result in any sort of corruption.

Labour-affiliated unions sponsor candidates and I figured if the seat's current MP - Jacob Rees-Mogg - can use his nanny to canvass support, I could seek the support of fellow trade unionists in Unite as part of my selection bid.

WCF sponsored candidates were an integral part of the evening.

"Nominees and sponsored candidates are reviewed by branch committees and recommendations for membership are considered by the Academy's Board of Governors," the site reads.

For the time being, though, Exxon-Mobil or the Stardust Casino can't openly sponsor candidates, and instead rely on phony "Committee for Good Government" smokescreen entities.

There are the corporate Super PACs and the billionaire patrons who manipulate their sponsored candidates, who in turn make explicit or implicit promises to their paymasters to keep the money flowing into their campaigns.