"expected nominees" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when talking about a group of people who are likely to be nominated for a particular award or position. For example: - The expected nominees for the Best Actor award include some of Hollywood's biggest stars. - The list of expected nominees for the company's board of directors was carefully curated by the CEO. - The committee's preliminary list of expected nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature has caused much speculation in the literary world.
Geithner has yet to have any of his seventeen deputies confirmed, and yesterday two expected nominees for Treasury positions withdrew themselves from consideration.
What seems more or less agreed is that the ballot that starts when the last of the 10 expected nominees stops talking (tip to candidates: keep it brief) will quickly eliminate most runners.
Here are the expected nominees in key performance categories, listed in order of predicted finish.
It would depend on the people nominated, the platform, the response of Yahoo's directors, etc". The identities of most of the expected nominees couldn't be learned.
Many expected nominees were left without an honor on Thursday, including "Saving Mr. Banks, Oprah Winfreyy (for Best Supporting Actress in "Lee Daniels' The Butler and Paul Greengrassss (for Best Director for "Captain Phillips").
It's not a partisan position". Many public broadcasting officials were perplexed last month when the White House tapped Bell to be on the board, along with two other expected nominees: former Arkansas Sen. David H. Pryor and Chris Boskin, a board member of San Francisco's KQED.
He has not endorsed Senator John McCain, the expected nominee.
The anti-abortion advocates also urged Gov. George W. Bush, the expected nominee, to name a running mate who opposed abortion.
It is only natural that Mr. Kerry would raise -- and spend -- far more now that he is the expected nominee.
"It's pretty rigorous," said Alan P. Larson, the State Department's top economics official, who is running the account until the president's expected nominee, Paul Applegarth, is confirmed.
The expected nominee for Secretary of State has forged close ties with Vladimir Putin and the head of Russia's state oil company.
