Finally in 1992, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, then candidate to the Presidency, declared that in its plan of government the quarrel for creation of the Ministry of Defense was foreseen.

If any candidate in the first round gains a majority of votes, then there is no second round.

Carías, who by then was in his early seventies, ultimately yielded to these pressures and announced October 1948 elections, in which he would refrain from being a candidate.

The ordination of a priest occurs before the Anaphora ( Eucharistic Prayer ) in order that he may on the same day take part in the celebration of the Eucharist: During the Great Entrance, the candidate for ordination carries the Aër ( chalice veil ) over his head ( rather than on his shoulder, as a deacon otherwise carries it then ) as a symbol of giving up his diaconate, and comes last in the procession and stands at the end of the pair of lines of the priests.

Two deacons go to priest-elect who, at that point, had been standing alone in the middle of the church, and bow him down to the west ( to the people ) and to the east ( to the clergy ), asking their consent by saying “ Command ye !” and then lead him through the holy doors of the altar where the archdeacon asks the bishop ’ s consent, saying, “ Command, most sacred master !” after which a priest escorts the candidate three times around the Holy Table, during which he kisses each corner of the Holy Table as well as the bishop's epigonation and right hand and prostrates himself before the holy table at each circuit.

The candidate is then taken to the southeast corner of the Holy Table and kneels on both knees, resting his forehead on the edge of the Holy Table.

The candidate then typically serves as an assistant curate and may later be ordained as a priest at the discretion of the bishop.

Quayle, then working as an investment banker in Phoenix, was mentioned as a candidate for Governor of Arizona prior to the 2002 election, but he declined to run.

" Reno, then a candidate for Governor of Florida, refused to discuss her role in the case, leading one editorial to claim that she was " stonewalling.

In Alaska the candidate for magical powers has to leave the abodes of men ; the chief of the gods sends an otter to meet him, which he kills by saying " O " four times ; he then cuts out its tongue and thereby secures the powers which he seeks.

The first candidate for Yukawa's meson, then dubbed the " mu meson " ( or muon ) was discovered 1936 by Carl David Anderson and others in the decay products of cosmic ray interactions.

Fine Gael, having gambled that former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald would run as its candidate ( even though he had insisted for two years that he would not run for office ) then approached another senior figure, Peter Barry, who had previously been willing to run but had run out of patience and was no longer interested.

The primary opposition candidate was the U. S .- backed Arturo Cruz, who succumbed to pressure from the United States government not to take part in the 1984 elections ; later US officials were quoted as saying, " the ( Reagan ) Administration never contemplated letting Cruz stay in the race, because then the Sandinistas could justifiably claim that the elections were legitimate.

A successful candidate must achieve a quota, which is " calculated by dividing the Total Valid Poll by one more than the number of seats to be filled, ignoring any remainder and then adding 1 vote.

Mr. Pitt's case in ' 84 is the nearest analogy ; but then the people only confirmed the Sovereign's choice ; here every Conservative candidate professed himself in plain words to be Sir Robert Peel's man, and on that ground was elected.

If the two houses choose different individuals, then a joint committee of both houses is appointed to agree on a common candidate.

The candidate is then formally appointed to office by the Emperor.

If voters are explicitly allowed to abstain from rating certain candidates, as opposed to implicitly giving the lowest number of points to unrated candidates, then a candidate's score would be the average rating from voters who did rate this candidate.

However, if no candidate receives the required number of votes ( usually an absolute majority or 40-45 % with a winning margin of 5-15 %), then those candidates having less than a certain proportion of the votes, or all but the two candidates receiving the most votes, are eliminated, and a second round of voting occurs.

If no candidate has an absolute majority of votes ( i. e. more than half ) in the first round, then the two candidates with the most votes proceed to a second round, from which all others are excluded.

If no candidate receives an absolute majority in the first round then the candidate ( s ) with the fewest number of votes is eliminated and excluded from further ballots.

If no single candidate has an absolute majority of votes then only the two highest polling candidates progress to the second count all other candidates are excluded and their votes redistributed according to the recorded preferences for continuing candidates.

The two highest vote-winners in the primary — in effect, the first round of a two-round system — are then the only candidates whose names appear on the ballot at the general election, effectively requiring one candidate to win an absolute majority to take office.

Usually one candidate key is arbitrarily chosen to be called the primary key and used in preference over the other candidate keys, which are then called alternate keys.

After successfully defending the academic thesis, MD degree is conferred to the candidate, The MD degree holder is certified as a Board certified specialist by the respective board of study of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine after he / she undergoes 2 – 4 years of local and foreign training depending on the specialty / subspecialty selected.

SIB recruit class 1 and 2 Cpl's from the Royal Military Police, and each candidate undergoes 12 months Foundation Training to determine suitability.

Following the second year of studies, a candidate undergoes a year of intensively supervised pastoral experience.

The president is involved in the promotions to general and chooses one candidate from a list of three names presented to him by the High Command.

After redistricting, he won a three candidate primary election in 1992 with a plurality of 48 %.

As every cumann was entitled to three votes to selection conventions irrespective of size, a large number of cumainn became in effect " paper cumainn " only used to ensure an aspiring or sitting candidate got enough votes.

To fulfill requirement 2b, the candidate must score one GM norm in a category 1a tournament or two norms within a three year period in two Category 1b tournaments, or one Category 2a tournament and one Category 1b tournament.

Gresham had a long career as a political appointee in the latter part of the 19th century ; though he lost his only two bids for elective office, he served in three Cabinet positions and was twice a dark horse candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

However she first hit national headlines as one of University of Dublin's three members of Seanad Éireann to which she was first elected, as an independent candidate, in 1969.

After some consideration, she agreed to become the first Labour nominee for the presidency and the first woman candidate in what was only the second presidential election to be contested by three candidates since 1945.

In the 1934 Party congress, Kirov was elected to the Central Committee with only three negative votes, the fewest of any candidate, while Stalin received 292 negative votes.

Several historians have interpreted the conclave to choose his successor as facing a choice between a diplomatic or a spiritual candidate, and they view Pacelli's diplomatic experience, especially with Germany, as one of the deciding factors in his election on 2 March 1939, his 63rd birthday, after only one day of deliberation and three ballots.

The ruling CCM party ’ s candidate, Benjamin W. Mkapa, defeated his three main rivals, winning the presidential election with 71 % of the vote.

The use of the system means that MPs are sometimes elected from individual constituencies with a plurality ( receiving more votes than any other candidate, but not an absolute majority of 50 percent plus one vote ), due to three or more candidates receiving a significant share of the vote.

A month later, however, he stood as a candidate in South Lancashire, where he was elected third MP ( South Lancashire at this time elected three MPs ).

These three men had campaigned vigorously, but only 300 of the 1, 000 convention delegates were pledged to a candidate before the convention.

When the 20 candidates were asked to anonymously vote for which other candidate they would like to see as the first to fly, all but three chose Gagarin.

After retiring as a player, Molitor remained with the Twins as a bench coach for three seasons, and was considered a leading candidate to manage the team when Tom Kelly retired after the 2001 season, but declined in part because the Twins were still at the time being targeted for potential contraction.

Sweden's row of three successive Championships was broken in Slovenia in 2004, when Germany won despite not being touted as a medal candidate by news agency Deutsche Presse Agentur.

( In some cases, a party can expect to " lose " if they nominate more than zero, since nominating one can cause spoiling when there are three or more parties ; the party may prefer the candidate who would win if the party nominates zero.

The subsequent passing of the 22nd Amendment of the United States Constitution in 1947 renders this election the only occasion in American history in which a candidate was elected to an unprecedented third term as president ( Roosevelt was elected to a fourth term in 1944, but he died less than three months after his inauguration ).

While this reduced their potential delegate count going into the Democratic National Convention, each of these three candidates hoped that the other leading contenders would stumble in the primaries, thus causing the convention's delegates to choose him as a " compromise " candidate acceptable to all factions of the party.

At the 1969 elections, again with Brandt as the leading candidate, the SPD became stronger, and after three weeks of negotiations, the SPD formed a coalition government with the smaller Free Democratic Party of Germany ( FDP ).

DPP candidate Chen Shui-bian won a three way race that saw the Pan-Blue vote split by independent James Soong ( formerly of the Kuomintang ) and Kuomintang candidate Lien Chan.

Coupled with an additional loss to André Arthur, an independent candidate, the Bloc recorded a net loss of three seats.

This may have been a response to three important events that had shaken investor confidence in the stability of the country: the aforementioned Zapatista uprising, the assassination of PRI presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, and the assassination of José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Salinas ' former brother-in-law who was also the Secretary General of the PRI, and whose murder was never solved during Salinas ' presidency, even when Mario Ruiz Massieu ( Francisco's brother ) was the attorney general in charge of the investigation.