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candidate

A candidate is one person or thing that may be chosen, especially in an election. The three presidential candidates will be interviewed on TV tonight. Crouch said LaBossiere was the more qualified of the two job candidates. Because the school has a lot of poor children, it's a good candidate to receive extra money.

candidate

(= campaigner) a politician who is running for public office someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)

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Simple sentences

We voted for the candidate.
The candidate was disappointed at the outcome of the election.
The independent candidate took the abortion issue off his platform.
The candidate is running for mayor.
Mr Smith is a candidate for mayor.
The candidate whom I cast a vote for was elected.
I'll eat my hat if my candidate does not win the election.
Questioned about his policies, the candidate gave only vague answers.
He ran as a candidate, independent of any party.
Mr. Smith is a candidate for mayor.
Winning the election was a great victory for the candidate's political party.
The Republican candidate won the election.
The local newspaper is endorsing the conservative candidate.
Strange to say, no one voted for the candidate.
The candidate made a quick response to the criticism.
I have a good opinion of the young candidate.
No one expected him to be a candidate again.
Dwight Eisenhower was the candidate for president.
During the US presidential election of 2004, the candidate John Kerry had to hide that he spoke French.
That candidate deserves our support.
This senate candidate also plays World of Warcraft.

Movie subtitles

You're an excellent candidate for testing, Jane, though I suspect you've already been told that.
Congressman Robert Manning, candidate for mayor, and Albert Panker, candidate for district attorney, both conceded their defeat shortly after midnight tonight. (ALL CHEERING) Wait a minute, folks.
Who's your candidate?
In other words, your future member of Parliament. your candidate, Mr.
He doesn't know the candidate's name.
I know your candidate will forgive my referring to him. by the friendly nickname by which he's already known. in anticipation, mark you. at Westminster.
I ask your candidate. and all those who love their fellowmen. to set themselves resolutely to make this world a happier place to live in.
It will be difficult to find a more suitable candidate for extermination.
So. they named their own candidate.
In 1916, as independent candidate for governor the best elements of the state behind him the White House seemingly the next easy step in a lightning political career then suddenly, less than one week before election defeat.
The committee has voted on the interrogation of the candidate Avenel.
The candidate Avenel who has been recommended to us by brother Gainsbourg, vice president of the chamber, is a deputy.
A candidate who has asked to be interrogated, Worshipful Master.
How important it is. to this constituency that at this crucial by-election. our candidate should be returned by an adequate majority.
And now, boys, we'll hear from our other candidate, Tony Ponessa.
We haven't heard from the other candidate. And I got plenty to say, too.
A vocabulary of 20 words and there I was with this other candidate, the brilliant one, and all the words you taught me just came pouring out like I'd always known them.
Each candidate's qualifications and background. had been checked and rechecked before he was called to Washington.
Upon the arrival of orders for overseas duty. the Secret Intelligence candidate becomes at last a Secret Intelligence agent.
Have they picked the Democratic candidate yet?
I am not a candidate for the river.
Lemmy Caution, he's a very legitimate candidate, the most legitimate!
SO SHE WOULD MAKE A REALLY GOOD CANDIDATE. WHY DO YOU NEED SAM?
What'll Nick Varna and the rest of the boys say if they hear you've been talking to a Reform candidate?
I shall offer myself as a candidate in the October elections.
You're a much more logical candidate.
Candidate.
The candidate?
You are mistaken, monsieur. I am not a candidate for the river.
No one can be a candidate for S.I.U. office unless he has spent at least 3 years at sea, a guarantee that he will understand seafarers' problems.
He's committed a high treason crime, which makes him a candidate for execution.
But we'll present him as our candidate in the elections. and if we elect him, they'll let him out.

News and current affairs

Positioning himself as the candidate who represents a sharp break with today's unpopular politics is the only means to escape that fate.
According to public opinion polls, Royal is the clear favorite of the left and the only candidate able to defeat Sarkozy.
Angela Merkel, the Christian Democrats' candidate, is a reformer, holding out hope for Germany's future - and that of Europe.
He denounced Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan as a mere puppet of the sinister governor of Illinois, John Peter Altgeld.
Likewise, he has been unable to get Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Paul Ryan to endorse his own Medicare cost-control proposals.
The original concept was that the two bodies would reach a consensus on a candidate.
In practice, however, the five permanent members now agree on a candidate, and their decision is rubber-stamped first by the Security Council and then by the General Assembly.
For example, the General Assembly should hold public hearings in which candidates are interviewed, thereby greatly enhancing the stature of the candidate who is eventually selected.
Certainly, it would not be viewed favorably in considering a candidate for tenure or a promotion.
As for currency collapse, the most prominent candidate has to be the euro.
Similarly, opinion polls show that support for EU membership has fallen rapidly even in many candidate countries.
If there is one candidate who can accomplish this, who can contribute, in a split second, to restoring America's international reputation, it is Barack Obama.
But that is another reason why Obama is exceptional: the complexity of his identity makes him truly universal, a global candidate for a global age.
Many Russian immigrants voted for the first time for a Labour candidate.
French President Jacques Chirac has alarmed the EU candidate countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
But neither candidate acknowledges the much bigger elephant in the room.
Jon Huntsman, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, is addressing this directly - insisting that we should force the largest banks to break up and to become safer.
The country's southwest edge is on the same longitude as the countries of the south Caucasus and Turkey, all of which are already ENP countries or in the case of Turkey an EU candidate.
Numerous opinion polls show Park Geun-hye of the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) to be the leading candidate.
South Korean voters of all ages and regions have welcomed Park as a candidate for their country's leadership.
No candidate on the horizon seems able to stop her.
Come presidential election-day in 2012, South Korean voters will pick the candidate who embodies pragmatism and centrism over a partisan or ideologue.
It will, of course, be important who wins the presidency: a candidate expected to continue Bush's foreign policy or someone ready for a new beginning.
While China's rulers aspire to shape a Sino-centric Asia, their efforts to intimidate smaller neighbors hardly make China a credible candidate for Asian leadership.

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