candidature
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“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
“The candidature will have its role to play in terms of jobs and growth in the Queensland economy once we have seen our way through the current crisis,” he said in a statement.
From Reuters • May 22, 2020
“The Russian Federation would love to welcome him once his candidature would be officially announced.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2017
If elected president of the C40 global cities group – she recently announced her candidature – she hopes to take the idea worldwide.
From The Guardian • Apr. 15, 2016
By inviting some of the more humble members of the choir, those on a higher social plane than her own would scarcely be likely to accept, Mrs. Bindle had thought to further Mr. Hearty's candidature.
From Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Jenkins, Hebert
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