candidature

Examples

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• Markovich herself initially had high hopes for her candidature and her campaign.

• Vico wrote the book to enhance his candidature for the chair in civil law at the University of Naples.

  Academic text (2005)

• The fact that the state allows the Church to submit his candidature upon presentation of a celebret indicates the historical relationship between the Church and the state, but it remains that the minister is functioning in two different ways.

  Blog text (9)

• "All these things being equal, I, Azaria Nelson, hereby withdraw my candidature from the Sir Charles Langton Award."

  Fiction book (1994)

• Harlot's Ghost, as I read it, represents his endeavor to resume his abruptly terminated conversation with the dead president, and to announce once again his candidature for the role of Jack Kennedy's Tom of Warwick, so clearly heralded in the preface to The Presidential Papers.

  Academic text (1997)

• During the meeting, she announced her candidature and her supporters rallied behind her.

• His candidature for the mayoral position was widely discussed during the community event last night.

• The committee reviewed all the applications before deciding on the final candidature for the scholarship.

Synonyms

N

nomination

vscandidature

734 3.3

A formal choice of someone to be a candidate for a job or award

is the ongoing period of being a candidate after the official naming

C

candidacy

vscandidature

122 4.4

Trying to be chosen for a job or elected office

is the same state but uses a different term or form

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