(n.) One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.
Example Sentences:
(1) Formerly, many patients in this category were considered either inoperable or candidates for total or partial nephrectomy.
(2) That's why the big dreams have come from the smaller candidates such as the radical left's Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
(3) Both former presidents Bush have said they will sit out the 2016 campaign, as has former presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
(4) Both Types I and II collagen are important constituents of the affected tissues, and thus defective collagens are reasonable candidates for the primary abnormality in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).
(5) Eighty four colorectal cancer patients who underwent presumably curative surgery were considered as candidates for control recurrence study.
(6) Leading clinical candidates have emerged from Smith Kline and French, Lilly, Merck-Frosst, ICI-Stuart and other groups.
(7) Treatment failures tend to occur early in the course of follow-up, permitting easy identification of candidates for alternative therapeutic approaches.
(8) Henderson was given permission to join Fulham when Brendan Rodgers arrived at Anfield in 2012 but has since developed into an important asset for the Liverpool manager, to the extent that the 24-year-old is the leading candidate to succeed Steven Gerrard as club captain when the 34-year-old leaves for LA Galaxy.
(9) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
(10) Candidates for a counselor-training program (136 Ss; 86% women; average age 44 yr.) took the GAIT in 18 groups and completed written forms for staff screening.
(11) Previously, we identified a candidate gene, Tcp-10b, whose t allele generates alternatively spliced transcripts.
(12) It is released into the urine in large quantities and thus represents a potential candidate for a protein secreted in a polarized fashion from the apical plasma membrane of epithelial cells in vivo.
(13) Opposition to legal abortion takes magical thinking and a lack of logic | Jessica Valenti Read more The only female Republican candidate for the White House has doubled down on her restrictive position over reproductive rights since a successful debate performance .
(14) A questionnaire was presented to 2009 18--19 year old military recruitment candidates which enabled assessment of antipathy towards patients with severe acne vulgaris, the occupational handicap associated with severe acne and subjective inhibitions in acne patients.
(15) It will not be so low as to put off candidates from outside the corporation but will be substantially less than Thompson's £671,000 annual remuneration – in line with Patten's desire to clamp down on BBC executive pay, which he said had become a "toxic issue".
(16) The best compound was trans-alpha-[[(4-bromotetrahydro-2H-pyran-3-yl) amino]methyl]-2-nitro-1H-imidazole-1-ethanol (18), which, due to its activity and log P value, is a candidate for additional in vivo studies.
(17) Copolymer 1 (Cop 1) is a synthetic basic random copolymer of amino acids that has been shown to be effective in suppression of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and has been proposed as a candidate drug for multiple sclerosis.
(18) The performance of candidates on the geriatric medicine items on the American Board of Internal Medicine's 1980, 1981, and 1982 Certifying Examinations was analyzed.
(19) Psychological risk factors predicted donor candidates' decisions to participate and their compliance but were not predictive (within the group that completed a cycle) of donor satisfaction as follow-up or recipient pregnancy.
(20) It was not just that there was only one female candidate – Berger – across four contests.
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.