The departure of the candidates from the Hall was witnessed by some two thousand persons, who warmly greeted their respective favorites.
He was a member of the council nearly all his long life; his influence was very great in promoting the return of candidates of his own party.
The candidates for the vacancy usually visit their fellow peers personally and solicit their support.
The winners turned their faces from the race track toward the bookmakers, cashed their checks, and the rest of the crowd strolled off toward the paddock to look over the candidates for the next running.
As was inevitable, the two candidates for the high post were Generals Lavalleja and Rivera.
The nomination of candidates at the primaries evinced a political animosity against Chairo of which we were altogether unaware.
Afterward we practised place kicks, drop kicks and punts; candidatesfor tackle were lined up against one another and tried breaking through; quarter-backs and centre-rushes practised passing and snapping back the ball.
Both candidateswere men of position and popularity, the one a young man and the other older, and both were neighbors.
In the first ballot there was a scattering of votes, but the chief candidates were Ande and Dick, the latter on account of his experience and strength, the former on account of his activity, mental and physical.
Whereupon there followed a small debate on the merits of the two candidates for Presidential position.
Then came the notorious Pastoral Declaration, established by the Synod of the Hague in 1816, which no longer required of candidates for the ministry an unqualified subscription to the ancient Confessions.
Yet his candidates were distrusted, and he had great trouble in defending himself against repeated charges of heresy.
The infidel Rumpf was excluded in 1858 from the list of candidates for the ministry, and all his subsequent efforts for restoration have failed in the chief council.
Young men appeared in numbers, offering themselves as candidates for the ministry.
The candidates for the pastoral office are not asked such questions as were propounded to their fathers and predecessors.
After the Oath of Supremacy, the bishop examines the candidates for the diaconate: "Do you trust that you are inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost to take upon you this office?
The question is simply a sham, and both candidates and bishop would be thoroughly astonished if the archdeacon replied that any one of them was deficient.
And the candidates solemnly promise to do that which they must know they have no intention of doing.
I question not but you will receive many Recommendations from the publick of such as will appear Candidates for that Post.
I have several Letters, dated from Fenny Man's, by Gentlemen who are Candidates for Capt.
This transportation was furnished to delegates by railroad managers through their local attorneys, or through favored candidates and their confidants.
If none but candidates who are servile to the railroad interest are nominated by the principal parties, the election is permitted to take its own course, for, whichever side is successful, the railroad interest is safe.
So great is the power of the railroad interests, and so persistent are they in their demands, that, unless a strong public sentiment records its protest, their candidates for appointive offices are but too apt to be successful.
I was celebrated in my third year for the most artful opponent that the university could boast, and became the terrour and envy of all the candidates for philosophical reputation.
The candidateswere John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, and William H.
They were a sort of informal town meeting, where neighbors met and agreed on candidates and the means of electing them.
In colonial days, when the struggle began between Crown and Colonist, the colonial patriots formed clubs to designate their candidates for public office.
In this informal manner, local and even congressional candidates were named.
In other States, the Central Committee and the various candidatesfor state office form a party council and frame the platform.
It attends to all important routine matters, selects candidates for office, and conducts their campaigns.
Corporations are forbidden to contribute, and the amount that candidates themselves may give is limited in many States.
Each office was placed in a separate column, thecandidates in alphabetical order, with the names of the parties following.
Wisconsin permits the candidates and the hold-over members of the Senate, assembled according to law in a state meeting, to issue the platform.
The other seven candidates were electioneering for a week before the Parish Meeting, and the result was that they all polled three times as many votes as I did.
That candidates for election must be proposed and seconded by two members of the committee, and unanimously elected by the committee.
He is morally bound to give a fair trial to all the candidates who are thus officially submitted to his notice; but he ought also on his own account to have taken stock during the summer races of the promising men of each college crew.
The opinions of college captains as to who are likely to make the best candidates for University rowing must not always be relied upon.
A notice containing the names of candidates for election at the general meeting shall be sent to every member of the club.
Each captain of a college crew is requested to send in the names of ten or more candidates for these trials; but it is not safe for a president to rely entirely upon the lists so furnished to him.
But Martha's requirements were such as the average servant can not meet or will not face, and candidates for the place and wages she offered asked questions and were not satisfied with her answers.
Candidates shall not vote for themselves; nor stump the valley proclaiming at the top of their lungs that they alone can keep the country from going to the dogs.
The accepted candidates were announced by name several weeks previously, and friends and enemies everywhere were called upon to testify all that they knew about them.
That the choice therefore rested with the supporters of the minor candidates was manifest, and with the cry "Anything to beat Grant!
Though votes were often cast for ten names, there were but two realcandidates before the convention, Grant and Blaine.
The choice of magistrates he so divided with the people, that, excepting only the candidates for the consulship, they nominated one half of them, and he the other.
The Emperor held a stick horizontally, and the candidates crept under it, backwards and forwards, several times.
In the evening the candidates were invited to address the convention.
He was just the man for a compromise candidate, and his chances were good for the nomination after the more prominent candidates should defeat each other.
The Republican vote at the last presidential election was far in the minority, even in the North; and now, with four candidates in the field, it seemed probable that there would be no popular election.
The baptismal and burial fees (neither of which can be avoided without incurring the charge of heresy) are also a great terror to the candidates for married life.
Why, he must have thought we were twocandidates for ordination!
The merits of all thesecandidates were discussed and somewhat irreverently disposed of, and then "The Jupiter" declared that Dr.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "candidates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
