Sentence examples for weaker candidates from inspiring English sources

Many schools pre-empted the policy and stopped entering weaker candidates before the deadline.

Yet the combination of a weakened economy and weaker candidates has scrambled the strategy planning.

The weaker candidates and campaigns have fallen by the wayside like pathetic beasts, while the real runners and riders march on.

"When the wave is large enough in elections, weaker candidates can get elected," said Nathan L. Gonzales, an editor at The Rothenberg Political Report, a nonpartisan political newsletter.

Alumni children are admitted at higher rates than average in large measure due to self-selection: weaker candidates tend not to apply.

By the time the primaries reached South Carolina the weaker candidates had vanished, allowing the survivors to delve deeper into their opponents' weaknesses.

Because "they consider him a weaker candidate than Governor Bush".

"Ads cannot elect a weaker candidate," McKinnon added.

First, Humala is, arguably, a weaker candidate than Toledo was in 2001.

In fact, one woman said she voted for Mr. Obama because she saw him as a weaker candidate.

But Mr. Romney is indeed the weaker candidate on foreign affairs with his shallow, sloganeering approach to the military.