Sentence examples for decisive favorite from inspiring English sources

Kentucky, with freshmen and sophomores leading the Wildcats to the No. 1 ranking for most of the season, was a decisive favorite Monday.

But with Butler on the other bench Monday, Duke will resume a role familiar to its fans from a decade ago: decisive favorite.

BATON ROUGE, La .— The Bowl Championship Series released its first rankings of the season Sunday, and on the surface, the list highlighted what most expected: Alabama in the top slot, the decisive favorite, the defending champion on course to repeat, followed by everybody else.

We've gone through some learning curves, from last week going on the road when we're a decisive favorite against a team that everyone thinks we might let down against, to playing a team that we already beat one time and, after a bye week, we're not supposed to win that one.

There was no decisive Republican favorite for independents, even though a slim majority of them chose a GOP caucus.

He's a more decisive Preakness favorite than American Pharoah, who was a 4-5 choine in the morning line on his way to the Triple Crown last year.

She made a decisive decision.

And so when something like this clearly is going to get beyond the capacity of whoever caused it, get beyond the capacity of local authorities, I think the federal government has to move in quickly and move in with, to use my favorite expression, decisive force and demonstrate that it's doing everything that it can do".

Josh Beckett, who pitched a five-hitter in the decisive Game 6, was the crowd favorite, his last name being chanted over and over.

The decisive win made him an early favorite to win the 2014 Kentucky Derby and raised speculation that he had the talent to win the Triple Crown.

But since Mr. Bush and Mr. Gore are the favorites, anything short of decisive victories for either could make them appear vulnerable as the campaign quickens.