Candidates must provide 30, 000 signatures from at least 15 provinces, or 30 members of a chamber of the legislature, or nomination by a party holding at least one seat in the legislature.

Additionally, 30 percent of the players must be Grandmasters who have the absolute right to play in the next World Championship Candidates Tournament, or who have played in such a tournament in the previous ten years.

Candidates for an undergraduate degree must also pass oral and written comprehensive exams in their major field of study.

Candidates must be Irish citizens and over 35 years old.

* Candidates for government office must take civil-service examinations.

Candidates must apply separately to Columbia Business School and the other degree program.

Candidates must be able to write in both English and French, must have a substantial publication history ( including poetry ) displaying literary excellence and must have written work reflecting Canada, among other criteria.

Candidates for admission generally must both apply directly to the academy and receive a nomination, usually from a Member of Congress.

Candidates must also pass a physical fitness test and a thorough medical exam as part of the application process.

Candidates for President must be citizens of ROC who has reached 40 years of age, has set their domicile in the ROC for not less than 15 years and lived in the free regions of the ROC for not less than 6 consecutive months.

Candidates wishing to serve with SBS must have completed two years regular service and will only be accepted into the SBS after completion of the selection process.

Candidates for the presidency must be approved by the Council of Guardians, a twelve member body consisting of six clerics ( selected by Iran's Supreme Leader ) and six lawyers ( proposed by the head of Iran's judicial system and voted in by the Parliament ).

Candidates must be Canadian citizens or landed immigrants and may apply to enter either Grade 7 or the upper school ( Grade 9 and above ).

Candidates must be able to speak English clearly enough to be understood over radios, intercoms, and similar communications equipment.

Candidates for the office of governor of Kentucky must be at least thirty years of age and have resided in the state for at least six years preceding the general election.

Candidates for governor must be United States citizens who have resided in Virginia for five years prior to the election in which they are running.

Candidates must successfully complete a three-day training course run by Victoria Police, the Magistrates ' Court, and the Department of Justice.

Candidates for diaconate and for priesthood must receive both ministries and exercise them for some time before receiving holy orders.

Candidates for either House must formally nominate with the Electoral Commission.

Candidates to the competitive examination must have their baccalauréat or an equivalent diploma.

Candidates for the PNC must be nominated by a committee consisting of the PLO Executive Committee, the PNC chairman, and the commander in chief of the Palestine Liberation Army.

* Candidates must have occupied one of the top leadership positions in their party for a period of one year.

Candidates must have been members for the preceding three years but may be nominated by anyone.

Candidates had to be at least 30 years old.

Candidates compete to be Queen of the Rose Festival in 2001 Puerto del Rosario.

Candidates for deputy had to be able to read and write, and have a certain amount of wealth.

Candidates were also judged on their skills of deportment, appearance, speech, and level of skill in calligraphy, all of which were subjective criteria that allowed the already wealthy members of society to be chosen over ones of more modest means who were unable to be educated in rhetoric or fanciful writing skills.

Candidates could not be nominated by organizations and associations but had to run for district office on the basis of personal qualifications and service to their communities.

Candidates for the Forbes list were fugitives thought to be dangerous who had " a long history of committing serious crimes ", who had been indicted or charged with a crime in a national jurisdiction or by an international tribunal, and who were involved with a type of criminal activity " with which legal institutions in diverse jurisdictions are grappling ".

Kramnik's performance in 2009 allowed his rating ( average of July 2009 and January 2010 ratings ) to be high enough to qualify for the Candidates Tournament to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2012.

His excellent playing continued through 1962 when he qualified for the Candidates Tournament for what would be his first World Championship match.

Candidates may earn their Master of Divinity degree at other seminaries, but may then be required to take colloquy classes at either St. Louis or Ft. Wayne.

By the end of the Ninth Pass, female Greenriders have become more common, so female Weyrbrats may be allowed to join the ranks of Candidates even if there is no gold egg in more progressive Weyrs.

The minimum age of the Candidates is decided by the Weyrleaders and may be changed according to the Weyr's needs.

If there is a greater need for older more responsible riders, the age may be pushed back, if there is a lack of Candidates, the age may be lowered.

Candidates have the option to write a scholarly paper ( called Fachbereichsarbeit ) to be submitted at the beginning of the February preceding the final exams, which, if accepted, reduces the number of written exams by one.

Candidates to be confirmed take a class which covers Christian doctrine, theology, Methodist Church history, stewardship, basic Bible study and other topics.

The Faculty has 1 Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the RA, 10 Doctors of Law and 50 Candidates of Law.

Hort participated in a number of Zonal and Interzonal qualifying tournaments to select a challenger for the world title, generally with good results but without reaching the final stages of the Candidates process.

Candidates standing for office must be 40 years of age, and must not have already been elected twice consecutively.

His Elo rating shot from 2540 in 1971 to 2660 in 1973, when he shared second in the USSR Chess Championship, and finished equal first with Viktor Korchnoi in the Leningrad Interzonal Tournament, with the latter success qualifying him for the 1974 Candidates Matches, which would determine the challenger of the reigning world champion, Bobby Fischer.

Karpov defeated Lev Polugaevsky by the score of + 3 = 5 in the first Candidates ' match, earning the right to face former champion Boris Spassky in the semifinal round.

Karpov was on record saying that he believed Spassky would easily beat him and win the Candidates ' cycle to face Fischer, and that he ( Karpov ) would win the following Candidates ' cycle in 1977.

The Candidates ' final was played in Moscow with Korchnoi.

Candidates were usually, but not necessarily, from the same lineage as the deceased leader.

Candidates to profession were tested to reveal whether they were actually married women who had merely separated from their husbands.

Candidates spend approximately 21 weeks at the FBI Academy, where they receive over 500 classroom hours and over 1, 000 simulated law enforcement hours to train.

* The top players of the day: world champion Mikhail Botvinnik, and those who had qualified for ( or been seeded into ) the inaugural Candidates Tournament in 1950: Isaac Boleslavsky, Igor Bondarevsky, David Bronstein, Max Euwe, Reuben Fine, Salo Flohr, Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov, Andor Lilienthal, Miguel Najdorf, Samuel Reshevsky, Vasily Smyslov, Gideon Ståhlberg, and László Szabó.

# Masters who have the absolute right to play in the World Championship Candidates Tournament, or any player who replaces an absent contestant and earns at least a 50 percent score.

# Any player qualifying from the Interzonal tournament to play in the Candidates Tournament, even if he did not play in the Candidates for any reason.

# Any player who would qualify from the Interzonal to play in the Candidates but who was excluded because of a limitation on the number of participants from his Federation.

# Any player who actually plays in a Candidates Tournament and scores at least percent.

She then confirmed her status as one of the world's leading players, narrowly failing to qualify for the Candidates Tournaments at the rival FIDE and PCA Interzonal tournaments.

In May – June 2007 she played in the Candidates Tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007.

Nancy Reagan hosted two 2008 Republican Presidential Candidates Debates at the Reagan Presidential Library, the first in May 2007 and the second in January 2008.

Candidates for members of parliament are voted upon when the prime minister asks the Governor-General to call a national election, a maximum of five years after the previous national election.

Candidates for bishop are chosen only from among the celibate.