Sentence examples for to commit to a candidate from inspiring English sources

He has yet to commit to a candidate in 2016.

This is especially true for those who waited until so late in the primary season to commit to a candidate.

One former aide, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly, said Mr. Edwards was angling for a role in a Democratic administration, and with the contest still undecided, was hesitant to commit to a candidate.

Reflecting the traditionally slow pace of summer fund-raising and lingering reluctance among many top Republican donors to commit to a candidate, aides to Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, have in recent days aggressively played down expectations for their own fund-raising totals.

That is more than four times the amount any of his Republican rivals raised but far less than Mr. Obama took in, reflecting the slow start to the Republican primary and the unwillingness of many major donors to commit to a candidate this early in the cycle.

And many in the movie, television and music businesses appear reluctant to commit to a single candidate until the field is narrowed.

"If you were in central casting and wanted a face to run for president, that isn't the face you'd choose," said Donna Sytek, speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, a Republican who has yet to commit to a presidential candidate.

"His Meteoric Days Gone, a Less Fiery Dean Leads Party" (front page, Oct. 21), about Howard Dean, made me realize why I'm afraid to commit to a Democratic presidential candidate: Because last time, I got my heart broken.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will propose steps today to strengthen the government's strategy to battle H.I.V. and AIDS in the United States and the rest of the world, becoming the latest Democratic presidential candidate to commit to a significant expansion of federal efforts to combat the epidemic.

She challenged fellow candidates to commit to "a new and smarter distance-based road charging system" in London with the money raised funding more cycling, walking and public transport.

Specifically, based on the regression line in the chart below, it appears that for every six undecided voters who commit to a candidate, five commit to the Republican: This does not mean that undecided voters who pick a candidate at the last minute, or even in the last month or two of an election, tend to break against the incumbent.