(n.) The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Monday, the day after a party congress officially cementing Putin's candidacy in the 4 March presidential election, the top stories on Inosmi concerned modernisation, the eurozone crisis and Iran.
(2) He won the Labour candidacy for the Scottish seat of Kilmarnock and Loudon in 1997, within weeks of polling day, after the sitting Labour MP, Willie McKelvey, decided to stand down when he suffered a stroke.
(3) But she has repeatedly said she doesn't want the job and her hardline attitude to human rights abuses in her current job as secretary of state is said to have made the Chinese sceptical about her candidacy.
(4) The foreign secretary, David Miliband, today gave his strong backing to Tony Blair's candidacy to be the first permanent president of the European Union .
(5) Russian finance minister Alexei Kudrin told the Itar-Tass news agency: "I think that she has all the necessary qualities, and we support her candidacy.
(6) In a local television interview last week, Senator Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, said of Trump’s run: “I don’t think it’s a very serious candidacy, frankly.” Trump also came under fire on Monday from Bush, who performed shabbily in the most recent polls.
(7) A day later, the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton echoed the president in the first major speech of her candidacy, saying: “We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.” The Republican candidate Rand Paul immediately jumped in, outlining his own record of calling for criminal justice reform and attacking that of Clinton.
(8) While we have been conservative with our immunosuppression, we have aggressively broadened the criteria for candidacy to include patients mortally ill, patients with elevated pulmonary vascular resistances, and those in their sixth decade.
(9) Fifty-five patients with vascular insufficiency resulting in above-knee (AK) and through-knee (TK) amputations were studied to determine factors related to prosthetic candidacy and functional outcome.
(10) Electric middle-latency auditory evoked responses (EMLRs) to transtympanic promontory stimulation were obtained from 19 of 22 ears of profoundly hearing-impaired patients evaluated for cochlear implant candidacy.
(11) It is understood that Patel Sr, who had been warned by the Tories that his candidacy would do his daughter no favours, decided to stay in the race after it was pointed out that candidates could only withdraw by noon 16 days before an election.
(12) Still, in interviews with home-state reporters Monday, Ryan denounced the idea of any Republican launching a third-party or independent candidacy to challenge Trump, telling the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel it “would be a disaster for our party”.
(13) "Alan Johnson could have done it [the London mayoral candidacy]," said one Labour source.
(14) The Super Pac wound down after Hillary Clinton declared her candidacy for president.
(15) The Democratic frontrunner said she had laid out an “aggressive plan to rein in Wall Street” and pointed to Super Pacs established by hedge fund managers to fight her candidacy.
(16) Saeed Jalili, right, a Khamenei hyper-loyalist, registers his candidacy.
(17) Blatter and Platini are also subject to investigation over the same payment by Fifa’s ethics committee, meaning both could imminently be suspended, which would scupper Platini’s candidacy to be elected Fifa president when Blatter steps down in February .
(18) The agreement between Junts pel Sí (Together for Yes), a coalition of the centre-right Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) party and leftist Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC) party, and the far-left minority partner Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) gives the separatist bloc a slim majority in the 135-seat Catalan parliament.
(19) Sheikh Salman, AFC president since 2013, is expected to announce his candidacy next week after receiving expressions of support from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America.
(20) The billionaire challenger Mikhail Prokhorov, who has battled claims that his relatively liberal candidacy was a Kremlin project to deflect protest anger, took second place in the capital with just over 20%.
Candidature
Definition:
(n.) Candidacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fecafoot president Iya Mohammed said: "I've never met Lothar Matthäus but his candidature has been forwarded to us as well as that of former Ivory Coast coach Vahid Halilhodzic and some 10 others.
(2) I understood that Sarkozy supported the candidature of Qatar.
(3) He was supposedly in the running for chairman of the BBC Trust, for a mayor of London candidature, and there was even talk of a role in motor racing.
(4) Marked differences in failure rates were observed between candidature and doctoral education even within universities.
(5) The FA is also keen to involve former internationals in some way and the possible candidatures of Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard and Rio Ferdinand have been discussed in FA circles.
(6) As a result of learning this information, the FA Board has this morning concluded that it must suspend its support for Mr Platini’s candidature for the Fifa presidency until the legal process has been concluded and the position is clear.
(7) In a letter announcing the formal submission of his candidature, sent to the presidents and secretary-generals of all 209 national football associations around the world affiliated to Fifa, Ali included the soothing assurance: “I am one of you, an FA president, and I know how hard you strive to define football.” Promising to restore Fifa’s reputation from the crisis over its leadership – Blatter and the secretary-general, Jérôme Valcke, are suspended and a succession of other senior figures have been banned, indicted or suspended for corruption allegations – Ali praised the national FA presidents whose votes he is seeking as honest and committed.
(8) If his ban is lifted, Fifa said in a statement that Platini’s candidacy would be put in the hands of its Ad-hoc Electoral Committee which would “decide, depending on the respective exact point in time, on how to proceed with the candidature concerned”.
(9) His candidature was greeted with much press scoffing, but his six-week campaign was hard-working and effective.
(10) This study was intended to test the candidature of the prepositus-vestibular nuclear complex for being the location of the oculomotor neural integrator (Robinson's integrator).
(11) Surprised at the level of attention, but knowing perhaps that after years on the sidelines, her candidature could do the party a vital service.
(12) But in 1976, when the selection committee met to consider it, just over half of the 37 delegates supported his candidature against the competition of Maureen Watt, daughter of the SNP's Hamish Watt, MP for Banffshire.
(13) A Labour investigation following allegations that Rahman won its mayoral candidature with the help of ineligible voters found no evidence of this.
(14) The candidature of hsp-70 for P. falciparum malaria vaccine thus needs to be re-evaluated.
(15) Yet following a meeting at Wembley on Wednesday, the entire FA board agreed to continue backing Platini’s candidature .
(16) But if we get through to the final two, we believe we can win.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tory leadership contenders Michael Gove and Andrea Leadsom agree to publish tax returns There was a feeling across the party that, while Gove might survive a round or two of the voting process that begins on Tuesday, his dramatic decision to knife Johnson by declaring him unfit to run the country and then announcing his own candidature – after years of insisting he was not interested in the top job – had left him in an all but hopeless position.
(17) A separate classification was made for preclinical (3 years of 'Candidature') and clinical (4 years of 'Doctorat') phases since, among the 11 Belgian medical schools, four teach only preclinical subjects.
(18) Leading the BBC – a job that mixes business with politics like no other – requires unimpeachable credentials, so Fairhead's candidature put her immediately under scrutiny.
(19) We haven’t presented our candidature and it is not our intention to do so,” he told Agence France-Presse .
(20) Sheikh Salman, the Asian Football Confederation president, is expected to announce his candidature early next week after agreeing to fill the void created by the suspension of the Uefa president, Michel Platini, over an alleged “disloyal payment” from Blatter, who has also been suspended by world football’s governing body.