Sylvanus Evans, candidate for Congress; and one by Colonel Partridge, candidate for a seat in the legislature.
One of the speeches delivered at Vicksburg, already referred to in another connexion, and a card published by a candidate for office, (accompanying document No.
The office I am a candidate for is not a political, but strictly a judicial office.
One, that I am a candidate for Congress; the other, that I am making a book.
A wholesome citizen would not vote fur a candidate for a law maker, who is in favor of laws, which authorize gaming-houses or groggeries.
You would not vote for a candidate for a law-maker, who is in favor of "the sub-treasury system.
But with all his ordinariness no one else in sight seemed so available a candidate for governor.
Heretofore Jay had steadily refused to become a candidate for governor.
In 1801 the chief-justiceship dropped into his lap when Livingston went to France and Lansing became chancellor, just as the chancellorship would probably have come to him had Lansing continued a candidate for governor.
I have not been and shall not be a candidate for re-nomination.
In 1874 he stood as a candidate for Parliament, but without success.
Twice after 1880 he was on the point of becoming a candidate for a seat in the House of Commons, but whether his love for Harrow would have suffered him to remain in Parliament had he entered it may be doubted.
In English universities, a thesis maintained in public by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
A candidate for admission to the Freshman Class is called a Pene, that is, almost a Freshman.
And what with ticking, screwing, and deading, am candidate for a piece of parchment to-morrow.
In the following days she seemed to receive these admonitions with eagerness, and declared that she had not forgotten what she had heard of her Saviour in former days, nor what she had promised when she became a candidate for baptism.
A young married man, a candidate for baptism, was seized with the same complaint, and brought to the brink of the grave.
I have come to give in my resignation as a candidate for Parliament.
I do not think it necessary to particularly describe the borough for which I was nominated as a candidate for Parliament.
My dear Nell," he said, "we held a party meeting yesterday, and it was decided that you should be a candidate for Parliament.
He was on whispering terms with a clean majority of all the Partisans in three connecting Counties, so he bought one Gross of the White String Kind and a pair of Gum Sneakers and began to run amuck as a Candidate for Congress.
He began to figure himself a Candidate for a plain white Cot in the Nerve Garage, when he heard of the wonderful Air and Dietary Advantages of Germany.
The Convention met, and when it came time to nominate a Candidate for State's Attorney, all of Sylvester's tried and true Friends among the Masses were at home working in the Garden or spread out in the Hammock.
In these examinations the important paper was in Chinese prose composition, which was much as if Latin prose were the main subject to prove the fitness of a candidate for an English or American administrative post!
The Whig State convention had met to nominate a candidate for governor, and the most eminent Whigs of Massachusetts were present.
Candidate for governor in the same year, he was also defeated.
In 1842 he declined re-nomination, and became a candidate for Congress.
They called it the Liberty party and nominated a candidate for President.
At the beginning of his administration Hayes had declared that he would not be a candidate for reëlection.
They now renominated him for President, with John Tyler of Virginia as candidate for Vice-President.
So the dashing and gallant senator sought out the new and unknown Democratic candidate for governor, and had a conference with him.
The contest had been going on for twenty years when Troup came upon the scene, in 1830, as a candidate for governor.
Johnson, who was a candidate for Vice-President on the ticket with Stephen A.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "candidate for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
