But he was not taken seriously as a candidate.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

As a candidate for president, Barack Obama said he would sign an Armenian genocide resolution pending in the U.S.congress.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

One of his first declarations was that no one in his ruling council would stand as a candidate in elections because the military had no wish to cling to power.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

"The major parts of health-care reform that the president sought to have enacted as a candidate are now very close to happening and he thinks the commonality between the two proposals overlaps quite a bit,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

And Tyler - a Whig - hoped that Calhoun might be able to get him nominated as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

As a result, almost every pro-slavery candidate was elected to the new legislature.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Besides, there was a growing feeling among the Whig leaders that they should choose a military hero as their presidential candidate - a general like Andrew Jackson.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

A number of Democrats refused to accept Bryan as their candidate.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

People began to speak of him as a presidential candidate.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

As a presidential candidate, he offered no new national programs.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

They refused to treat him as a serious candidate.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

But neither the Maoist leader, popularly known as Prachanda, nor the Nepali Congress candidate, Ram Chandra Poudel, could win a majority.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

The state's Republican governor,Tim Pawlenty, widely seen as a potential presidential candidate, refused to certify Franken after the recount, saying that he would wait until the state Supreme Court had ruled.

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

Polls showed Rubio trouncing Crist in the Republican primary, but recent polls give Crist a better chance to win the Senate seat running as an independent in November against Republican Rubio and Democratic candidate Kendrick Meek.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

With the three parties running so close, each candidate will be hoping to distinguish himself as a clear leader, in the hope of pulling ahead and avoiding a hung parliament - where no one party wins a majority of seats.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

Less than two years later, Crist has left the Republican Party to run as an independent candidate in the race for a U.S.Senate seat in Florida, after realizing it was going to be impossible for him to win the Republican primary.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

"Obama as a presidential candidate was big news in Africa,and I decided that since we have a commitment in this library to collecting all kinds of information materials produced in Africa, we should immediately begin to collect materials about Obama, about how Africans responded to the Obama candidacy."

VOA: standard.2010.07.10