Sentence examples for contender for selection from inspiring English sources
Ranked fourth for the event countrywide, Thorpe went into the Australian Championships in Adelaide as a serious contender for selection in the national team for the 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
Wilkinson recently signed a new one-year contract extension after enjoying a superb season, though he is seen as an unlikely contender for Lions selection, especially given Toulon's likely involvement in the Top 14 play-offs.
She twice broke the Australian record in the 100-yard freestyle in late 1955, thereby positioning herself as a leading contender for Olympic selection in 1956.
There was a brief flurry of interest in the stock as a bid target after the announcement of Shell's $70bn £47bnn) takeover of BG in April, but that proved a mirage and Tullow's 60 per cent loss on the year makes it our worst selection –and a contender for the worst in a decade.
Mnuchin, who served as Trump's campaign finance chairman, had long been considered a top contender for the Treasury post, though his selection runs counter to the the anti-establishment rhetoric of the Trump campaign.
"The policy for selection does allow athletes to be included who work for the team rather than just as individuals, but only if the slots are not filled by genuine medal contenders in their own right," said Hyde Peters.
A charge of bias in the selection process has created indecision over India's choice of a contender for the Oscar for best foreign-language film, The Associated Press reported.
A relatively recent contender for the BLUP-type of model in the genomic selection field is to apply simultaneous estimation and variable selection or variable regularization to multilocus association models (e.g., Meuwissen et al. 2001; Xu 2003).
A1 Cheney as Bush Favorite Richard B. Cheney, the former defense secretary who is heading Gov. George W. Bush's search for a vice presidential nominee, has emerged as a leading contender for the job, changing his voter registration to make his selection possible.
