Sentence examples for consider a front for from inspiring English sources
Mr. Qadi once headed a Saudi-based charity called the Muwafaq Foundation, which federal authorities consider a front for Osama bin Laden's terror network.
Rebuffed there, the officials said, the Americans went to Lahore and approached another group, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which intelligence officials consider a front for the radical group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
The New York Tibet Fund disburses another $3m a year, which the Chinese media consider a front for the US government because part of the funding comes from the State Department.
Much of the ice cream van trade in Glasgow in the 1980s was considered a front for the sale of drugs and stolen goods.
According to another leaked cable, the Netherlands discussed how monoethylene glycol, an important raw material used to manufacture urethane and antifreeze, was shipped by a Dutch concern to the Syrian Ministry of Industry, considered a front for the Syrian military.
Brendan Barnicle, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities, said Mr. Apotheker was hardly considered a front runner for the job, particularly given his lack of expertise in hardware.
"American Beauty," a scabrous comedy about dysfunctional suburbanites that is considered a front-runner for the Academy Awards, won for best drama.
Shortly after the shooting, Mr. Huckabee, considered a front-runner for the Republican nomination for president in 2012, issued a statement blaming "a series of failures in the criminal justice system in both Arkansas and Washington State" for Mr. Clemmons's alleged recent crimes.
Mr. Ganim, once considered a front-runner for the Democratic Party's nomination for governor, is to go on trial on Jan . 2
