candidature

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Muscat emerged as favourite for the job after former manager Steven Gerrard withdrew his candidature at the weekend saying the timing was not right for him to return to Ibrox.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025

“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

Rajoelina sent his resignation letter to the court on Saturday following confirmation of his candidature in the elections, the High Constitutional Court said in a statement late on Saturday.

From Reuters • Sep. 10, 2023

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

So well were his methods understood that he acquired the dubious honour of a candidature for the authorship of Junius.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose