Sentence examples similar to becoming a front runner from inspiring English sources
In almost every year and every Academy awards season, a film separates itself from the pack in both critical praise and audience adoration, becoming a front-runner not just for Best Picture but Biggest Backlash as well.
Before becoming a Democratic front-runner in this year's race for mayor, Mr. de Blasio was an ambitious Park Slope City Councilman who scrambled into the public advocate job in 2009, looking to turn the often-overlooked office into a fierce champion of neglected communities and the downtrodden.
By contrast the EU's business lobby is alarmed about rising energy costs, and says the EU is at risk of naively becoming "a lone front-runner without followers".Increasingly, the commission has had to cast the argument in terms of saving Europe rather than the planet.
If the chase for the Democratic nomination appears to have reached a stage of inevitability, if Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York is becoming a runaway front-runner as national polls might suggest and some of her rivals are beginning to fear, the word has not reached the voters here in Chickasaw County.
A share sale now appears to be a front runner.
The good news is you're a front runner.
"There's not really a front runner at this stage.
Because if you do so, you are a front runner, and nobody likes a front runner.
Mr Massa has become a front-runner for 2015.
The picture will likely snag Oscar nominations down the line (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, etc)., and Joaquin Phoenix falls into the same trap he did back in 2005, becoming the *first* front runner for Best Actor (for Walk the Line) instead of the *last* front runner (followed by Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain and than ironically Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote).
