As the candidate for the presidency of the dominant party in the land, all of General Grant's sayings and doings will be subjected to the closest scrutiny by his political opponents.
When he was regarded as an available candidate for the presidency during the war, he was approached on the subject by a zealous partisan.
Was it seen even then that he was a probable or a possible candidate in the future?
He introduced reforms into the army, largely curtailing the public expense, and exhibiting a spirit of economy which was very hopeful in the people's candidate for the presidency.
He has been nominated by the National Republican party as its candidate for the presidency, on a platform which every patriot, every Christian, heartily indorses, and which is the sum total of the general's political creed.
The bringing a client-state within the sphere of imperial taxation occurs elsewhere, e.
The Egyptian merchant also, writing under Vespasian, in his description of the coasts of the Red Sea (c.
The intercourse with the East must have had a varied influence on Egyptian manufactures as regards supply and demand.
What told in favour of this course, and what prevented it, has formerly been set forth (p.
War is waged by this faction against every candidate who possesses the union of requisites.
You will, therefore, be the candidate for Dartford with my entire sanction and support; and I have no doubt you will be successful.
You must go down on Friday to Dartford and declare yourself a candidate for the town, or I shall reconsider our mutual positions.
But this, too, came to nothing, and the King's College appointment also went to the candidate who was backed by the most powerful influence.
Last year I became a candidate for a Professorship at Toronto.
Had the Sydney University been carried out as originally proposed, I should certainly have become a candidate for the Natural History Chair.
I remember when I was candidate for the Fullerian professorship some twenty-three years ago, a friend of mine asked a wealthy manager to support me.
We have heard it intimated that when General Schnierle is a candidate for the mayoralty, they are regularly assessed for means to defray the expenses of the canvass.
He is a candidate to succeed Mr. Buchanan as President.
We are told, that on these occasions, the minister takes the candidate for baptism so far into the river, that they are frequently drowned.
He is deeply involved in the politics of his country, and, as I said before, is a candidate for the next presidentship.
This of course placed him in the light of a martyr, and a few months later it made him the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio.
Vance, as a candidate for reelection, represented those who held that the State should only act in cooperation with the other States that were engaged with her in the war.
When the votes were counted, it was found that Mr. Brough had a majority of one hundred thousand, the largest that had ever been given for any candidate in any State where there was a contest.
According to the official report of the proceedings, the first ballot for a candidate for Vice-President resulted in two hundred votes for Andrew Johnson, one hundred and eight for Daniel S.
Birney, son of a slaveholder that had emancipated his slaves, had been mobbed for his abolitionism, and had twice been the presidential candidate of the Liberty party.
Wollaston; but he declined standing as a candidate for the president's chair.
Hill denies that he ever became a candidate for election, and states that although he attended the meetings he would not become a member on account of the Society's method of performing that which they were founded to do.
Later in the year he became a candidate for and secured an open scholarship at Christ's College, where Vines himself was then a Fellow, and went into residence in October, 1876.
Ward was a candidate with the warm support of his fellow-botanists.
Nor again would the imputation of selfishness lie against members of a club for black-balling a candidate who would, they feel, be uncongenial.
It is uncontrovertible that every candidate for election into such a society will have, and will feel that he has, affinities with the members of that association.
A candidate for office in this campaign will need the use of all his faculties if he is to be successful.
In the midst of this glittering escort the candidate himself rode in an open barouche on his way to the hall where he was to deliver a final speech.
When the party caucus for the choice of a candidate for Senator was held a few days later, his followers recognized the hopelessness of his ambition and prevailed on him to withdraw his name from consideration.
I knew that my name, with others, had been mentioned by those who were looking for a candidate whom we can elect.
The clarion declaration of the Benham Sentinel in favor of Lyons evoked sympathetic echoes over the State, which promptly convinced the political chieftains that he was the strongest candidate to pit against Patterson.
But Elton disclaimed the obligation, asserting that he had acted merely from self-interest to make the election of his candidate more certain.
His enemies would claim that the party could not afford to stultify itself by the choice of a candidate who favored monopolies.
It was she who was at the bottom of Miss Bailey's rejection when she was my candidate for a position at Everdean College.
The retiring candidatedoes not state what Providence has granted, does she?
According to the rules, the candidate must have herself discarded an advantageous marriage, and that Miss Diana will give up Mr. Wilkins is extremely questionable.
The mere advent of a candidate raised her spirits and she found herself chatting freely with her visitor even before she had put her through the catechism.
By our second rule every candidate must be beautiful and undertake to continue so.
Every candidate must be beautiful and wealthy, and undertake to continue so.
The President and the new and promisingcandidate had a delightful chat over a cup of tea and the prospects of the Club.
Miss Jack proved to be an extremely eligible candidate so far as appearances went.
It was natural, therefore, that he should be regarded as a candidate for the purple.
At Artaxata Zeno, the popular candidate for the throne, was crowned king of Armenia.
May 1125, and after a protracted contest Lothair, duke of Saxony, thecandidate of the clergy, was chosen in the following August to succeed him.
Some people--and I think they were right--seemed to think a candidatehas no business to canvass electors at all.
Meetings are of little avail, organisation is equally futile, paid agency simply leads the candidate into a Serbonian bog, where Whole armies oft have perished.
But to the candidate an election contest is, at any rate, fraught with instruction.
It is easy to get up a public meeting if a candidate will go to the necessary expense; and it is easier still to spoil one if the opposition committee can secure the services of a few roughs or an Irishman or two.
Evidently as an orator he was above all Greek, above all Roman fame, and he was quite willing to come and speak at my meetings, which was very kind, as he assured me that no candidatefor whom he had spoken was ever defeated at the poll.
For one of the meetings the candidate worked harder than usual.
Why not run Judson as labor candidate for sheriff, and elect him?
In 1823 was elected a Senator of the United States, and nominated as candidate for the Presidency by the legislature of Tennessee.
As no candidate had a majority, the election devolved on the House of Representatives, and it resulted in the choice of Mr. Adams.
This, also, was a period of probation, and it was only after it had been passed to the satisfaction of the freemen that the name of the new candidate could be proposed in town meeting for full citizenship.
If all is satisfactory the candidate should be approved and admitted and the license to teach granted.
Towards the end of the letter is this sentence: "The election has closed and the Whigs have elected Aaron Clark their candidate for Mayor by a majority of nearly 5000 votes.
Every other candidate for the place had sought his favor; it came to me without price or solicitation on my part.
In 1897, at the session of the legislature which was to elect a Senator, and which was composed of sixty Democrats and three Republicans, Moses Thacher was the favored candidate of the Democracy in the State.
Neither developed any policy of administration or offered any candidate for office at the time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "candidate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
