11.   I am a declared Democratic presidential candidate, duly qualified for the New York state ballot.

12.   Livingston appeared to clinch the race for speaker Monday, as the only other declared candidate dropped out.

13.   Lubbers was one of only two declared candidates, the other being former Danish foreign minister Uffe Elleman-Jensen.

14.   More significantly, nearly four year ago, before Clinton was a declared candidate, he volunteered on short notice for a Sperling Breakfast with his wife, Hillary.

15.   Others might back a newly declared Arab candidate, Azmi Bishara.

16.   Other declared candidates simply fail to measure up.

17.   Powell enjoys the mystique and special protections that attach to a prominent personality who is not yet a declared candidate.

18.   Recent polls show Bonior trails two declared Democratic candidates, Attorney General Jennifer Granholm and former Gov. James J. Blanchard.

19.   She was a member of the Russian parliament and a recently declared candidate for governor of the region around St. Petersburg.

20.   So for a while there, we ignored the declared candidates and waited for Powell.