compete for

Example sentences

• Janio's party nominated him as a candidate to compete for a seat in the election.

  Janio nia partidu nomeia nia nu'udar kandidatu atu hadau kadeira iha eleisaun.

• The political parties compete for seats in the election.

  Partidu polítiku sira hadau malu kadeira iha eleisaun.

• When some parties form a coalition, they work together to compete for seats in an election or to form a government.

  Bainhira partidu balu halo koligasaun, sira servisu hamutuk atu hadau kadeira iha eleisaun ka atu harii governu ida.

Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.