candidature

Example Sentences

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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

John Swinney is being nominated by Deputy First Minister Shona Robison, with the SNP’s deputy leader Keith Brown seconding his candidature.

From BBC • May 7, 2024

“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

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

The new government, as a preliminary to military and naval reorganization, introduced a law directed against the candidature of military officers for parliament.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various