"candidate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Faced with criticism that she was wasting public money campaigning against token candidates - which is legal - Ms. Messinger has said she would return about $100,000 to the city treasury.
- While Republicans made several strong bids for the district in the late 1960s and early 1970s (largely over racial issues such as a 1971 busing order), they have only put up token candidates since 1972.
- Were the Dodgers sincere or was he merely a token candidate for the job Kevin Malone got?
- But the best guess is that anyone who runs will be a mere token candidate.
- Kenyan newspapers run regular dispatches on the campaign, in which the heavily favored Mr. Obama is pitted against a token Republican candidate, Alan Keyes.
- Merely four years ago, it could field only token candidates in several statewide races.
- Marcos instructed Nacionalista Party president Jose Roy to find a token candidate to oppose him.
- "We're not talking about token candidates," she said.
- It is a long way from past races in which even token white candidates carried a huge white majority.
- Mr. McCandless has faced no significant opposition since he first won the Republican primary in 1982, regularly trouncing token Democratic candidates by 2-to-1 ratios.
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