candidature
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“A public candidature and campaigning like the one that we have seen this year is highly unusual,” said Nina Graeger, the director of Peace Research Institute Oslo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
“The candidature will have its role to play in terms of jobs and growth in the Queensland economy once we have seen our way through the current crisis,” he said in a statement.
From Reuters ● May 22, 2020
In 2016, he famously scuppered the leadership hopes of his friend Boris Johnson, by announcing his own candidature on the morning of Johnson's own campaign launch.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2020
I will post more from Lewis’s interview, which expands on an article he wrote for the Guardian earlier this month confirming his candidature, shortly.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2019
Before the N.A.C. sanctions any candidature it shall be entitled to secure guarantees of adequate local financial support.
From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel P. Orth
“Their candidatures have put the Olympic Movement in a win-win situation, with very little to separate the two projects,” said Patrick Baumann, the panel chairman and an IOC member.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 6, 2017
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South African officials have said they are likely to bid, and Paris, Budapest, Istanbul and Melbourne are discussing candidatures.
From Chicago Tribune ● Jan. 8, 2015
“Two very interesting candidatures with a very diverse approach” is how IOC President Thomas Bach described them on Thursday.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 2, 2014
"Obviously this time it will not be somebody from Europe, so we will have to see what the candidatures are," European Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht told reporters last week during a visit to Geneva.
From Reuters ● Dec. 17, 2012
It now only remained for us to write to Washington, withdrawing our candidatures, and transferring all our support to the applications of Hawthorne for Surveyor and Howard for Naval Officer.
From Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop