Sentence examples for chief challengers from inspiring English sources

Mr Ashdown cannot support Labour too enthusiastically because, in some urban local councils, the Lib Dems have taken over from the Tories as the chief challengers to Labour.

Team USA, before taking a week off for the holidays, was undefeated in 21 games, including three victories against their chief challengers for another gold medal: Team Canada.

Buddy Lazier took the lead when his two chief challengers took each other out with 37 laps to go and went on to win the SunTrust Indy Challenge last night in Richmond, Va.

Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats' leader in the House, is the daughter of a five-term Maryland congressman turned Baltimore mayor and one of her chief challengers for the job was Harold Ford, who succeeded his father in a Tennessee seat.Perhaps Teddy Kennedy's name-and-shame strategy will have the desired effect.

Its chief challenger, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), failed to live up to its name.

The Lib Dem vote is also more likely to erode in its northern seats where Labour is the chief challenger.

Mir Hosein Mousavi, the so-far-thwarted chief challenger to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had been duly vetted by the clerical authorities as a proponent of their rule.

Professor John Atta Mills, the vice-president, and John Kufour, his chief challenger for the presidency, are lawyers who are polite to each other and have almost no differences of policy.

She also said she sought guidance from the spirit of her late husband, Benigno S. Aquino Jr., who had been a chief challenger to Mr. Marcos.

And if the president fails to win an outright victory in the first round, he may have a struggle to fend off whoever emerges as his chief challenger in the second.

Palmer, announcing that she had been drafted back into the State Senate race, went from being Obama's most important supporter to his chief challenger; the woman who had launched his political career now threatened to end it.