Sentence examples for standing to replace from inspiring English sources

Mutko, the sports minister who previously headed the RFU from 2005 to 2009, refused to rule out standing to replace Tolstykh, telling Russian agency R-Sport: "We'll think.

Andy Burnham has become the third candidate to declare he is standing to replace Ed Miliband as Labour leader, promising to restore the party's "emotional connection with millions of people".

In 2013 Sheikh Salman was elected president of the Asian Football Confederation with the backing of the Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, and he is now standing to replace him at elections in February.

The city is one of Labour's totems as constituency home of outgoing deputy leader John Prescott, and may be home to the next one, Alan Johnson, the education secretary, standing to replace him.

Singapore's Ser Miang Ng, one of the six candidates standing to replace Rogge in Tuesday's election in Buenos Aires, is in no doubt how important those reforms were.

The only other candidate to have confirmed she is standing to replace Anas Sarwar as deputy leader is the North Ayrshire and Arran MP Katy Clark.

Meanwhile, Marshall's Ulster colleague Paddy Jackson is standing by to replace Jonathan Sexton against New Zealand - if Ireland's first-choice fly-half is ruled out of Sunday's final autumn international.

Discussion of a reshuffle has also occurred in the context of upcoming diplomatic appointments, which could be filled by long-serving ministers standing aside, including to replace former Labor leader Kim Beazley as ­ambassador to the United States.

By my logic, I was saving money, having dropped my long-standing campaign to replace the painted-plywood kitchen shelves with serious maple cabinets.

That working people are increasingly relying on food banks signals the second major pathway by which the global financial crisis is undermining SDH in Ontario: through its impact on labour markets, especially through the long-standing trend to replace adequate with precarious employment.

Tom Watson, the party's former deputy chairman, declared he would consider standing for deputy leader to replace Ms Harman.