Sentence examples for were candidates of from inspiring English sources

Two popes were candidates of rival aristocratic families, and the third, though widely respected for his piety, allegedly committed simony to receive his office.

One of the fundamental changes in Chinese society from the Tang to the Song dynasty was the transformation of the scholarly elite, which included the scholar-officials and all those who held examination degrees or were candidates of the civil service examinations.

They were subjected to maximal excision (total, partial resection or biopsy) at least 4 weeks before the inclusion and were candidates of radiotherapy.

This cross-sectional study included 47 patients with colorectal cancer (18 women, 29 men; mean age 55.4 years, range 32 81) and 51 non-cancer patients (21 women, 30 men; mean age 58.5 years, range 20 81), who were candidates of colectomy.

Most of Mr. Detweiler's clients, however, are candidates of the Small Town U.S.A. variety.

There are candidates of both parties who do not deserve to be elected.

Obviously, ϕ and ψ are candidates of (S_{1}) and (S_{-1}), respectively.

are widely used to be candidates of DNA vaccines [ 2- 7].

So, they may be candidates of future studies.

We considered all genes in these CDRs to be candidates of artificially selected genes.

Figure  3 compares clusters in line #5, which are candidates of nocobactin-like siderophore-producing genes.