candidature
Americannoun
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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
In 2016, he famously scuppered the leadership hopes of his friend Boris Johnson, by announcing his own candidature on the morning of Johnson's own campaign launch.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2020
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
In this respect he deceived his adversaries, and perhaps still more his friends, if this term can be applied to the politicians who patronized his candidature.
From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de
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