Russia knows this, and that is why there were over 800,000 competing for places as candidates for the Olympic gymnastic team.

Roleplaying was offered as a solution -- and the procedure worked as follows: all candidates were invited to a hotel conference room, where the president explained the difficulty he had, and how unnecessary it seemed to him to hire people who just did not work out.

The electoral procedure prevented the ready identification of party affiliation, but all vitally interested parties, including the government itself, were busily engaged in determining the party identifications of all successful candidates the month following the elections.

Although the elections were for local officials, it was not necessary to conduct the elections so as to prevent parties from publicly identifying their candidates.

Both parties and the Ministry of the Interior were busily at work after the elections trying to unearth the political affiliations of the successful candidates and, thereby, give the elections a confidential but known degree of national political significance.

There were three major administrative tasks: the fixing of electoral districts, the registration of voters and the registration of candidates.

Jones, unhappy that the candidates were limited to eight minutes for a speech and no audience questions, saved his barbs for Mitchell.

Lincoln finished eighth out of 13 candidates ( the top four were elected ), though he received 277 of the 300 votes cast in the New Salem precinct.

At the October 2006 Conservative Conference, she was Chief Dragon in a political version of the television programme Dragons ' Den, in which A-list candidates were invited to put forward a policy proposal, which was then torn apart by her team of Rachel Elnaugh, Oliver Letwin and Michael Brown.

Among the Liberal rank and file, several Gladstonian candidates disowned the bill, reflecting fears at the constituency level that the interests of the working people were being sacrificed to finance a rescue operation for the landed elite.

In areas with working class majorities, in particular coal-mining areas, Lib-Lab candidates were popular, and they received sponsorship and endorsement from trade unions.

After the Third Reform Act, fewer Whigs were selected as candidates.

Lloyd George and the Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law wrote a joint letter of support to candidates to indicate they were considered the official Coalition candidates – this " coupon " as it became known was issued against many sitting Liberal MPs, often to devastating effect, though not against Asquith himself.

The Liberals were reduced to a mere forty seats in Parliament, only seven of which had been won against candidates from both parties and none of these formed a coherent area of Liberal survival.

Another general election was called in 1951, and the Liberals were left with just six MPs in parliament ; all but one of them were aided by the fact that the Conservatives refrained from fielding candidates in those constituencies.

In some areas, the Militant tendency were held to be systematically targeting weak local party branches in safe seat areas in order to have their own candidates selected, and thus become MPs.

Eddie Milne at Blyth ( Northumberland ) and Dick Taverne in Lincoln were both victims of such intrigues during the 1970s, but in both cases there was enough of a local outcry by party members – and the electorate – for them to fight and win their seats as independent candidates against the official Labour candidates.

Thus there were two classes of baccalarii: the baccalarii cursores, theological candidates passed for admission to the divinity course ; and the baccalarii dispositi, who, having completed this course, were entitled to proceed to the higher degrees.

Despite these shortcomings, and his promise to step down at the end of the transition, Bozizé contested the 13 March 2005 presidential elections in which all of the leading opposition candidates were allowed to run except for Patassé.

No Chancellor has ever come from the CSU, although Franz Josef Strauss and Edmund Stoiber were CDU / CSU candidates for Chancellor in the 1980 election and the 2002 election, respectively, which were both won by the SPD.

In 2003, despite a fight, Nakasone was not given a place on the LDP's electoral list as the party introduced an age limit of 73 years for candidates in the proportional representation blocks.

B. Ed was introduced as a four year special degree and in contrast with the 9-10 3hr papers at the final degree examination, a B. Ed degree required a candidates to sit for 19-20 papers for the finals.

Other reforms included the Educational Reform that introduced classroom teaching in the local indigenous language, Universal Maternity Coverage and milk and medical coverage for children up to the age of five years, a Universal Old-age Annual Benefit, opening elections to independent candidates for congressional seats, Capitalization, a reform which enabled the formation of joint ventures by private capital and the Bolivian people ( not the Bolivian state ) and requiring the private capital be invested directly in the new company.

In 1980s Zia ul-Haq introduced a system under which non-Muslims could vote for only candidates of their own religion.

Laws were introduced in the UK to prevent untrue statements being made about candidates — see Miranda Grell for a 2007 case.

Under Blair, Labour launched a massive PR campaign to rebrand as New Labour, introduced women-only shortlists in certain seats and central vetting of Parliamentary candidates, to ensure that its candidates were seen as on-message.

The Anti-Masonic Party, an opponent of Jackson, introduced the national nominating conventions to select a party's presidential and vice presidential candidates, allowing more voter input.

The Contract with America was introduced six weeks before the 1994 Congressional election, the first mid-term election of President Bill Clinton's Administration, and was signed by all but two of the Republican members of the House and all of the Party's non-incumbent Republican Congressional candidates.

With the new players introduced Wrexham went a run of six matches unbeaten, which included victories against promotion candidates Darlington and Milton Keynes Dons and a 0 – 0 draw against Peterborough United.

Conservative Party chairman Lord Stonehaven complained back to MacDonald about his promotion of " unknown candidates introduced at the very last moment by yourself " competing against Conservatives who had promised him their support, which risked handing the seats to the opposition.

Trudeau announced his support for leadership candidate Gerard Kennedy shortly before the 2006 convention and introduced Kennedy during the candidates ' final speeches.

The new party introduced a full slate of candidates for state office and adopted a liberal platform that included the repeal of the Taft – Hartley Act, creation of a minimum $ 1. 25 an hour wage, and a graduated land tax on property worth $ 20, 000 or more.

New York City introduced a uniform ballot listing all candidates in 1880.

The federal government of Bob Hawke had introduced a new single transferable vote system for the Australian Senate, enabling voters to choose between voting ' above the line ' ( for a single party preference ticket ) or ' under the line ' and number all candidates in order of preference, on the ballot paper.

In 2008 25. 8 % of all A level subjects were given an A grade, and there were renewed calls for a better system of differentiation between higher-level candidates to be introduced.

The competition was introduced as an additional incentive for candidates who had passed the Solo Seal examination, and has taken place almost every year since 1931, even during the Second World War.

The candidates were introduced during press conferences on the 21st and 22 April 2011.

Voluntary public funding for candidates willing to accept spending limits was introduced in 1974 for presidential primaries and elections.

The rapid national growth of the party leading into this election and the late decision to contest in all seats possible, has meant that in some states there are candidates, with strong family values, who have been introduced to the party through the personal relationships they have from their involvement in community / church networks ".

A law passed in 2010 has already improved the basic salaries of judges, and a more rigorous method of selecting candidates for judges had been introduced.

Starting with 1881, an admission test was introduced ; the top priority was the quality of candidates, the number of the selected ones being less important.

In the ensuing years, the following degree programs were introduced: Master of Divinity ( 1973 ) for priesthood candidates, religious, and lay women and men ; Master of Religious Education ( 1977 ), later designated as Master of Arts in Religious Education ( 1989 ); and Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry ( 1989 ), an upgrading of the Certificate in Pastoral Ministry, which had been in existence since 1975.

A ` Teaching-cum-Research Fellowship ' ( TRF ) scheme was introduced by NSIT in 1998 for the candidates.

The third episode, called " The Great Debate ", introduced the top five nominees and pitted the studio audience supporters of each of the nominees and a person selected to represent each of the top five candidates against a panel of three celebrities.