"candidate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He seemed to observers to be an almost reluctant candidate, though, and a bit too much of a "mystic" for the Washington press corps.
- As a reluctant candidate for President in 1796, Jefferson came within three votes of election.
- Described by two men who hired him as a reluctant candidate for the job, he now seems anything but a reluctant manager.
- Yet whether it was from arrogance or ambivalence, she often seemed a reluctant candidate.
- He typically appears in election years to offer strategic advice to the reluctant candidate, Pogo.
- Pogo was a reluctant "candidate" for President (although he never campaigned) in 1952 and 1956.
- Goldwater was a reluctant candidate in the first place.
- Today, even candidates reluctant to get into the muck say they feel compelled to respond in kind.
- The party leaders are likely to encounter reluctant candidates for these posts, too.
- Instead, the public must depend on whatever disclosures the press can wheedle from an often reluctant candidate.
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