noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a party candidate (= someone who represents a political party in an election )
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The seat was won by the Socialist Party candidate with 68% of the vote.
a potential candidate
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Party leaders have put together a list of 10 potential candidates.
a prospective candidate
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He is the Tory Party's prospective candidate for Oxford East.
an election candidate British English (= someone trying to be elected in an election )
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Local party members choose the election candidates.
endorse a proposal/an idea/a candidate etc
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The Prime Minister is unlikely to endorse this view.
fielded...candidates
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The Ecology Party fielded 109 candidates .
Independent candidates
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Independent candidates won three seats.
Labour MP/candidate
the sole candidate
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He was the sole candidate for the post.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
congressional
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He also contends that Democrats have not produced a bumper crop of congressional candidates this year.
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Furthermore, women also favor Democratic congressional candidates over Republicans by a 15-point margin.
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Dole had visited the Battle Creek Federal Center in 1994 while campaigning for a local congressional candidate .
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Organized labor provided major support for Clinton and Democratic congressional candidates in 1996.
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On Friday, he was at the Arizona Biltmore to raise money for Republican congressional candidates .
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Overall, the 176 PACs gave $ 65 million to congressional candidates since 1989, the group reported.
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Soft money is different from contributions made directly to presidential and congressional candidates .
conservative
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I made my mark against the Conservative candidate .
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John F.. Kerry, to the leading Republican lobbyists who support conservative and pro-business candidates at a cocktail reception here.
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He might have been selected as a Conservative candidate .
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The most conservative candidate in the race.
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A Conservative candidate in such circumstances was likely to provoke hostilities very easily.
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His margin over the conservative candidates standing against him was not of much consequence.
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But Michael Fallon, Conservative candidate , criticised the claim.
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It is surely unique in Britain for a failed Conservative candidate to be chairman of not one but two quangos.
democratic
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Furthermore, women also favor Democratic congressional candidates over Republicans by a 15-point margin.
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The Democratic candidate was Edwin Edwards.
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Ron Wyden, the Democratic candidate , on to the defensive.
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Pete Wilson supports the initiative, while Democratic gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Brown has staked her election hopes on vehement opposition.
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The senator was preparing to campaign that fall for Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern, D-S.
good
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It promotes itself as the best candidate to advise the government on energy matters.
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They felt I was the best candidate for change, which is my campaign theme.
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Some 72 % simply believe that he is the best candidate .
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The reality is that maybe today, Zyuganov is not the best candidate .
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Ross ever. the principle of nuclear engines was successfully tested and they remain good candidates for long-term development in interplanetary spacecraft.
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And you can bet that a good candidate for shaking out is Pena.
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Ireland has a well developed educational system that supplies good candidates for science and technology courses.
independent
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Hadley is NatPower's new business development director but happens to share his name with the Responsible Independent parliamentary candidate for Wimbledon.
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In the 1975 election, however, voters chose four independent candidates for the council and elected independent Margaret Hance as mayor.
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In addition 84 seats in the expanded 250-member Assembly were reserved for independent candidates .
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That same signature would remain valid on the petition of an independent candidate , she said.
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Texas state law does not allow for the substitution of an independent candidate once he has won a spot on the ballot.
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An independent candidate , Ted Mack, was successful in winning a north Sydney seat from the Liberals.
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Perot gained 19 percent of the vote as an independent presidential candidate in 1992 and may run again this fall.
labour
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Milburn is the town's Labour candidate .
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Almost all the other Labour candidates had long and notable records in the union movement.
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They are mostly Labour voters but several confuse their Labour candidate with the leader of the Liberal Democrats.
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The Labour candidate advocating a pacifist programme, reversed a large Conservative majority in a seat never before held by Labour.
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More trade-union sponsored Labour candidates were put forward in the 1929 General Election as unions recognized the failure of industrial action.
liberal
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In the general elections of 1923 and 1924 he stood unsuccessfully as Liberal candidate for Lincoln.
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He was also carrying an orange poster on a pole, urging a vote for the local Liberal Democrat candidate .
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Mr Peter Allen, the Liberal Democrat candidate was pushed into third place with about 8,400 votes.
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The successful Liberal party candidate in the last pre-Farclandia election, he has the title but not the clout.
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Kay Kirkham, the Liberal Democray candidate , believes the Government's economic record will undoubtedly cost them the seat.
likely
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Accordingly, in 1883 a woefully neglected Ruckers of 1612 was located in Windsor Castle and proffered as a likely candidate .
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In retrospect, however, it is clear that there were always good reasons why this city was a likely candidate .
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Thames, North West and Severn Trent are the most likely candidates .
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Even the least likely candidate for a career in dance knew that Truitte was available after class for talk about the field.
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She saw three public houses and a shop selling papers, but nothing that looked a likely candidate .
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She identified the most likely candidate as Leach, who, she said, had agreed to accept her nomination.
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With the United States running a current account deficit of staggering dimensions, the most likely candidate is not hard to spot.
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For several reasons the first and last of these are the most likely candidates and each has its proponents.
other
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The other candidates fighting Cheltenham are ... Read in studio Tim Hurst reporting.
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There are three other candidates in Cheltenham.
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Three other candidates are standing in Oxford West and Abingdon.
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Hitherto defacto president in his capacity as Supreme Soviet Chair, he defeated one other candidate .
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Two of the other leading political candidates have been asked to attend the event.
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There's one other candidate standing in the Hereford constituency.
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Almost all the other Labour candidates had long and notable records in the union movement.
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Why should we hire you instead of one of the other candidates ?
parliamentary
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Each of the prospective parliamentary candidates for Orkney and Shetland added their voices to the growing storm of unrest.
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It was impossible to treat all parliamentary candidates alike without being either wholly uninformative or inordinately lengthy.
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Especially to eager young parliamentary candidates and local trouble-makers.
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Alan Milburn, Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate for Darlington, claims the figures are only the tip of the iceberg.
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He did invite me to become a parliamentary Labour candidate in the 1945 election.
political
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Two of the other leading political candidates have been asked to attend the event.
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Can teachers be prohibited from promoting political candidates in class?
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If cars could have images, so could political candidates .
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But no political candidate can afford to lay down the fund-raising guns.
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As has dogged the fate of any political candidate I have favoured for any office or position, he was unsuccessful.
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To demand and receive a pledge of honest advertising from political candidates is the furthest form of wishful thinking.
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People are influenced not just by political parties or candidates but also by national, regional and local considerations.
possible
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They need to recruit the best possible candidates .
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The companies have been mentioned as possible consolidation candidates .
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So far, no one has found a possible candidate for the supernova that might have represented the Star of Bethlehem.
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He had been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate and, more seriously, for governor of New York.
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The only possible candidate for pure night is the outermost ring, which is solid and impenetrable.
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There are, after all, other possible candidates .
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Given some output from the pattern recogniser, all possible candidate strings should be generated.
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Another possible candidate is MCC's highly successful head coach, Don Wilson.
potential
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Letter databases needed for matching are smaller, but give a much larger number of potential candidates .
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For the first time, potential candidates for the next election clearly appeared more concerned about their constituencies than about committee endorsement.
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Specifically she develops two areas, feminist theory and liberation theology, as potential candidates to regenerate the social group work movement.
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Among apartment REITs, for example, are seven potential candidates that have been mentioned publicly or are being studied by analysts.
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However, the National Electoral Commission retained wide powers to ban potential candidates .
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He has long been considered a potential presidential candidate .
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Stage 1:Market research involves obtaining the information with which to identify all potential candidates and with which to evaluate them.
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After his speech, Brown said several potential job candidates had turned him down because of the pay.
presidential
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The arrangements for selecting presidential candidates that produced Ronald Reagan in 1980 have been the subject of much criticism.
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Dole appeared to be drawing a lesson from the last four presidential candidates who ousted the opposition party from the White House.
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Independent presidential candidates would be able to stand, as well as those from political parties and coalitions.
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But you see the same presidential candidate , the same speech.
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The nearly 23 years between their birthdays would be the largest age difference ever between major-party presidential candidates .
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All the 1996 presidential candidates except Forbes have accepted matching funds.
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The senator was preparing to campaign that fall for Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern, D-S.
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The post-Watergate campaign reforms limited individuals to a maximum $ 1, 000 gift to a presidential candidate .
prime
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Another prime candidate for nostalgia this Christmas is Otis Redding.
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San Francisco-based Bechtel is one of five companies in a consortium that is considered the prime candidate to build the 68-mile railroad.
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We would have thought this was a prime candidate for disclosure.
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Vinyl and aluminum siding are prime candidates to take flight in a high wind.
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In this area there is a surprising lack of desktop publishing software as it is obviously a prime candidate .
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This young woman seems a prime candidate .
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Joseph was a prime candidate for deportation.
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All prime candidates , a few hundred years ago, for the Witchfinder General.
prospective
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Requiring drug tests of this discrete group of citizens is an intrusion, a humiliation and a subtle deterrent to prospective candidates .
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Interviewing prospective candidates was quite an eye opener for people who haven't a clue on what that job entails.
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The Congregation itself is being more selective and encouraging prospective candidates to complete their school education.
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Each of the prospective parliamentary candidates for Orkney and Shetland added their voices to the growing storm of unrest.
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In 1936 she was adopted as the prospective parliamentary candidate for the Exchange division of Liverpool.
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John Taylor became one of the best known prospective parliamentary candidates when some local tories objected to his selection.
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Mr Bates, prospective Conservative candidate for Langbaurgh, claimed the fire service training budget had been drastically cut.
republican
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Party loyalty and a good war record had made Rutherford Hayes an acceptable Republican candidate that year.
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Alan Keyes, the only other Republican presidential candidate to participate in Louisiana, won no delegates.
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But he is no longer the Republican senate candidate for Massachusetts.
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Attorney General Dan Lungren is the lone Republican candidate thus far.
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This prompted two Republican candidates who are faring poorly to invite Mr Weicker back to the party; he refused.
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Even Republican . businessmen contribute money to the Machine, more than they give to Republican candidates .
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And this Republican candidate has won the New Hampshire primary with 28 percent of the vote.
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Those who heard the debate on radio thought Republican candidate Richard M.. Nixon carried the day.
strong
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Ratcliffe has a rival in former Plymouth Argyle manager David Kemp, who is also a strong candidate .
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With strong black candidates , especially but not exclusively incumbents, there is enough white crossover to win.
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Despite a slight shortage of new ideas, she remains the strongest candidate the Democrats have fielded for some time.
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Fujimori pardoned 110 inmates based on recommendations of the commission, which has identified about 400 more strong candidates for release.
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Labour are fielding a strong candidate in Alan Milburn.
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Why is she such a strong candidate for a top nomination on the bench?
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Add to this theme positive appraisals as a manager through the internal appraisal system and you have a strong candidate .
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With his wide-ranging connections and relatively positive public image, Qiao is a strong candidate for top leadership.
successful
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The successful candidate is awarded his next kyu grade.
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Louise Renne, who ran unopposed for city attorney, threw a dim sum party for successful treasurer candidate Susan Leal.
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The prize for successful candidates , a chance to study medicine in the former Czechoslovakia.
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The successful candidate will be required to write news and feature articles directed at Fairplay's readers who hold senior management positions.
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The successful candidate will be based at Jealott's Hill but will spend an initial period at Leuven.
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Because the television identified only successful candidates , the public does not know if Uday, 36, ran.
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Nor did it stipulate how long the incumbent would hold office until fresh elections produced a successful candidate .
suitable
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There may appear to be only one suitable candidate for the job.
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By curious coincidence, the suitable candidates are somehow always chaps.
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Opportunities for joint supervision with members of staff from these bodies are available when suitable candidates with appropriate research topics present themselves.
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Staff can help with the issue of application forms, shortlisting suitable candidates and interviewing facilities can be provided.
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Recruiting suitable candidates is a delicate business.
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Failure to select a suitable candidate because of age is often a covert form of racial and gender discrimination.
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If not, could anyone suggest a suitable candidate ?
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Its demands probably do exclude some otherwise suitable candidates .
tory
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At the Suffolk elections of 1705 and 1710, 80 percent of the clergy voted for the two Tory candidates .
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Michael Fallon, the Tory candidate , has declined to sign.
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From the moment black barrister John Taylor was selected as Tory candidate .
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The runner is now a Tory candidate .
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He was speaking for a Tory candidate at the election.
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Utter shambles, said one Tory candidate .
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His was a campaign to warm the heart of the town's Tory candidate Michael Fallon.
■ NOUN
bob
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Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole appears to have two minds when it comes to taxes.
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Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole drew criticism Thursday, when he blamed the welfare system for increases in domestic violence.
party
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I stood as the Green Party candidate in May 1988 and 1989.
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Perot organizers say the Reform Party candidate will be on the ballot in all 50 states.
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In Gampola, a United National Party candidate said that when he went to vote, some one had already cast his ballot.
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Bruce King lost because a Green Party candidate polled 10 %.
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The Libertarian Party candidate got the remaining 1 percent.
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The successful Liberal party candidate in the last pre-Farclandia election, he has the title but not the clout.
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Yet no self-respecting third-\#party candidate runs for election simply to destroy one big party and elevate the other.
■ VERB
choose
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Voters in these constituencies would choose between whichever two candidates had won the largest numbers of votes in the first round.
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In the 1975 election, however, voters chose four independent candidates for the council and elected independent Margaret Hance as mayor.
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The first rule in choosing a vice-presidential candidate is to pick some one who does not undermine the campaign.
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The Tories have also put on their blinkers, choosing fewer candidates from working-class origin and fewer Etonians.
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It did not say how many rounds or propose a means for choosing closure candidates .
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Instead of voting immediately, he suggested, regional groups should meet to choose the best qualified candidates .
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Since then, each party has chosen its candidate on the first ballot at its quadrennial convention.
elect
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In order to be elected , a constituency candidate needs only a plurality of the votes cast.
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To elect as many legislative candidates as possible this fall who are sympathetic to both sides.
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The Welfs could not allow such an election to pass unchallenged and a minority elected their own candidate , Siegfried.
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Political consultants used to be little-known operatives working in dingy offices trying to elect better-known candidates .
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After the first-round vote, it was reported that no candidate put up by the 30 parties supporting Milongo had been elected .
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It cost almost as much to elect an honest candidate as to elect a dishonest one, he observed.
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In six rounds of voting, deputies repeatedly failed to elect a candidate by the required majority of 531 votes.
field
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The Green Party fielded 256 candidates , and averaged 1.3 percent of the vote.
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Even before the crisis there had been talk of fielding a Popular Front candidate in Oxford.
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They would have to field candidates for a variety of offices at regular intervals or risk being closed.
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Labour are fielding a strong candidate in Alan Milburn.
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Although it fielded no candidates in the prefectural contests, it won four seats in the national constituency.
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It fielded four candidates who averaged just under 10 percent where they stood.
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The Greens fielded 260 candidates in 2000 and won 81 races, mostly local.
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At two state elections this month, Mrs Hanson stunned everyone by reappearing, fielding candidates and causing havoc with the results.
lead
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And now Harmon, 62, is a leading candidate to head the federal Export-Import Bank, according to associates.
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All the leading presidential candidates are separatists.
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In fact, even at 6-5, they would remain the leading candidate .
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Terry Lierman, a wealthy businessman and lobbyist, had been considered the leading candidate among Democrats to challenge Morella next year.
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Most of the credit goes to Damon Stoudamire, a leading candidate for Rookie of the Year.
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The leading candidate to replace Dole is Sen.
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The most entertaining moments of the debate took place during acerbic cross fires among the leading candidates .
require
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No charges are required from any candidate , only their time and effort to complete our study programme.
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The legislation would require candidates to raise 60 percent of their contributions within their home states.
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Sellers of promotional items usually require candidates to pay 50 percent per order up front, with the rest payable on delivery.
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All parties contesting a general election would be required to field candidates for at least one-third of the 360 seats.
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It also would have required candidates to raise 60 percent of their funds in their own home states.
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These days, Benson said, the same position would require candidates with at least three years of online experience.
select
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He'd gone down to Atlanta to watch the Democratic Party select its presidential candidate , and at night he went dancing.
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Another goal in picking a running mate is to avoid selecting a candidate who might add trouble to the ticket.
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Application forms Sometimes you will be required to fill in an application form which will be used to select candidates for interview.
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A search committee will be formed shortly to select candidates to replace Tien, but a decision is months away.
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He might have been selected as a Conservative candidate .
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In these systems, the electorate selects legislative candidates from a party committed to support a particular prime minister.
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The arrangements for selecting presidential candidates that produced Ronald Reagan in 1980 have been the subject of much criticism.
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Failure to select a suitable candidate because of age is often a covert form of racial and gender discrimination.
stand
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This confident 31-year-old financial advisor was a leading Young Conservative and stood as a candidate for Tynebridge in the 1987 election.
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That did not stop Krajisnik from standing as a candidate at the first postwar election in 1996.
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In the general elections of 1923 and 1924 he stood unsuccessfully as Liberal candidate for Lincoln.
support
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On 7 November, he appealed to the voters to support Gaullist candidates .
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We expect somebody supporting a candidate running against Carroll next year to attempt to use this ancient factoid against him.
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Since then, grass-roots groups have been supporting Communist candidates in local elections across the country.
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In theory, soft money is supposed to be used only for generic party activities and not to support specific candidates .
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The Party had supported Labour candidates and was calling for the return of a Labour Government.
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John F.. Kerry, to the leading Republican lobbyists who support conservative and pro-business candidates at a cocktail reception here.
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The princes needed to support the dominant imperial candidate to maintain and enhance their positions.
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But some members might be under pressure to support the candidate who carried their own constituency.
vote
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And if voters have voted for an excluded candidate , why should they be permitted to switch their preference?
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On election day, the regime brought contingents of troops into the city to vote for its candidates .
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Since 1879, House rules have required a majority of those voting for a distinct candidate to elect a speaker.
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Team members vote on candidates and develop rankings-high to low.
win
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The Senate seats were all filled by completely free balloting, and all but one were won by Solidarity candidates .
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Heavy advertising has won candidate Forbes far more attention than political analysts expected he would get.
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Local government elections On Feb. 23 in local government by-elections 692 out of the 1,053 contested seats were won by independent candidates .
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I know that competitions are often won by compromise candidates , the pianists everyone on the jury can agree upon.
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The winning candidate needs 270 electoral votes to capture the White House.
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But, he concedes, the winning candidates melted under pressure and double-crossed the movement when they raised water rates.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a prime candidate/target (for sth)
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And if you understood that, you are a prime target for the party's newest election weapon.
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In addition, any enemy hit by a net is a prime target for a club attack as explained below.
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It was clear the police were looking for reporters, that they were prime targets.
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Joseph was a prime candidate for deportation.
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The law and order section is a prime target for every kind of scam.
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The school meals service is a prime target in the government's plans for bringing in outside contractors.
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Vinyl and aluminum siding are prime candidates to take flight in a high wind.
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We would have thought this was a prime candidate for disclosure.
prospective employee/candidate/buyer etc
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Abele also will provide prospective buyers with e-mail updates of new listings that meet their criteria.
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In University City, some agents issue similar warnings to prospective buyers.
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It's putting off prospective buyers.
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Not only does a company interview prospective employees, the would-be employees are supposed to interview the company.
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Once you have a list of prospective candidates, you need to do a bit of research.
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Requiring drug tests of this discrete group of citizens is an intrusion, a humiliation and a subtle deterrent to prospective candidates.
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The élite squads work more intensively and aim to produce at least three prospective candidates in each weight division.
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The only way they can market their products is to produce literature detailed enough to convince the prospective buyer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Candidates should be at their desks 5 minutes before the start of the examination.
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I think Reid is definitely the best candidate .
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My name is Andrew Fraser. I'm your Labour candidate .
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One candidate must receive a majority of the vote.
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She stood as the candidate for Hackney East.
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the Democratic candidate
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Instead of debating each other, the candidates often indulged in soliloquies.
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Letter databases needed for matching are smaller, but give a much larger number of potential candidates.
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No future presidential candidate will go back to Bob Jones university in a hurry.
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None of the three Conservative candidates standing in the area for the first time was elected.
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People who buy several souvenir buttons tell which candidate they are supporting.
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Some candidates may choose to take a course and gather evidence of competence in parallel.
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We hope to ensure that every candidate will have given some consideration to the issues which affect older people.
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What are the other candidates and their parties afraid of?