What is "candidacy"

Usage examples of "candidacy".

Rodney Potts, recreated and natty in a new summer suit of alpaca, his hat freshly ironed, sued the town of Little Arcady for ten thousand dollar damages to his person and announced his candidacy at the ensuing election for the honorable office of Judge of Slocum County.

With the Reverend Jesse Jackson championing the side of the black Bermudians as well as pressing his third presidential candidacy, President Tucker was of course anxious not to alienate black voters.

The other, more complex, problem had to do with my natural out-front bias in favor of the McGovern candidacy -- which was not a problem at first, when George was such a hopeless underdog that his staffers saw no harm in talking frankly with any journalist who seemed friendly and interested -- but when he miraculously emerged as the front-runner I found myself in a very uncomfortable position.

The fact our publisher openly is considering a political candidacy contaminates our credibility in the eyes of some readers.

When the announcement of a possible Lawrence candidacy was posted in our newsroom Tuesday, the first reaction was incredulity.

The Elders voted on whether to accept your candidacy or not, and they decided to appoint you as a Warrior.

Griffen, forty-seven, said to have been favoured for the Progressive Conservative candidacy in the Toronto riding of St.

Joe Edwards' candidacy as pure demented lunacy -- a form of surly madness so wrong and rotten that only the Wretched and the Scum of the Earth could give it a moment's thought.

General Ralston dropped his candidacy for the chair of the joint chiefs,'' he said.

I'm about to announce my candidacy in a special election for a senate seat that's recently been vacated.

Considering the president's unspoken opposition to his candidacy, the remark was disingenuous.

The other thing I'd note is simply what the article's about, which turned out to be not so much the campaign of one impressive guy, but rather what McCain's candidacy and the brief weird excitement it generated might reveal about how millennial politics and all its packaging and marketing and strategy and media and Spin and general sepsis makes us U.

The fool does so, his money is examined and returned to him, his candidacy is unanimously approved with handshakes, and the session rapidly adjourns on promises that formal agreements will be signed with him in a few days.

Several anxieties flicked through his mind then: he was black with rock dust--would he have time to wash before donning the white tunic of candidacy?

Thousands of them, whose candidacies had failed: and we alone, we few, had won the prize that all had sought.