candidature
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Announcing his candidature on TikTok, external, Alkhatip said he would be standing on an "anti-corruption, pro-worker platform".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
“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
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 Russian Federation would love to welcome him once his candidature would be officially announced.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2017
The overtures of the Duke of Gottorp, who attempted to bribe Ulfeldt to support his candidature, were refused by him, at least according to his own statement.
From Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 by Leonora Christina Ulfeldt
“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
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
At a moment of embarrassment, Mr. Disraeli, in the course of one of his youthful candidatures, created a diversion in his favor by telling a knot of unruly politicians that he stood on his head.
From A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson
