Sentence examples for declared his hand from inspiring English sources

He has not yet declared his hand, having been elected to run Jakarta only last year.

Adams himself has declared his hand and will seek to regain the Sinn Féin seat in County Louth, which would give him a much higher profile in the Irish Republic's media over the next few years.

Mr Gandhi has long been seen as a prime-minister-in-waiting but with the charismatic and populist BJP candidate Narendra Modi having declared his hand, Congress refrained from naming Mr Gandhi as their prime ministerial candidate.

However, Ed Balls, the shadow Chancellor, is in no hurry to declare his hand.

The former Fifa executive Jérôme Champagne is so far the only candidate to declare his hand.

Boris Johnson, the Conservative MP and mayor of London, is another figure yet to declare his hand.

Sources close to Sisi said he was merely waiting for nominations to open officially before declaring his hand himself.

It is a perfectly plausible scenario: there has been a sense of everyone waiting for Perez to declare his hand; standing up to him appears pointless.

It doesn't matter how many conversations Mr Clark is alleged to have had with leading Democrats; he will not be in the running unless or until he declares his hand.

The final shape of the race will only be known when the Irishman declares his hand and, as so often before, he is leaving it late to decide between his three entrants.

He is due to declare his hand next Monday, after the final round of Heineken matches, by which time England will have decamped to the Algarve for a training get-together.