Sentence examples for expected winner from inspiring English sources
So we received some explanations of why people were not voting for "Beloved," the expected winner, and also one Roth fan's assertion that the presumptive preference for "American Pastoral" over "Operation Shylock" was self-evidently mistaken).
— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) December 3 , 2012Its first announced award didn't disappoint, though: "How to Survive a Plague," about the rise of the AIDS advocacy group Act Up, earned best debut film, besting the expected winner, "Beasts of the Southern Wild".
Furthermore, we find that exit poll information significantly increases bandwagon voting; that is, voters who choose to turn out are more likely to vote for the expected winner.
The network declared Romney the expected winner as the polls closed at 8 p.m.
For starters, the first award recipient Mo'Nique, the expected winner as supporting actress for Precious, took her sweet time waddling her way to the podium.
With Romney the expected winner here and the favorite for the nomination, reporters have packed into his events throughout the past few days.
The expected winners: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Washington.
He won widespread endorsements, ranging from environmental groups to police and municipal unions that traditionally back incumbents and expected winners.
Dr. Shaw expected Mr. Obama in New Hampshire and Mr. McCain in Michigan to benefit from voters' long-demonstrated propensity to flock toward expected winners.
Second, whereas democracy and market capitalism appeared as clear – if more fragile than expected – winners in 1989, it is difficult in 2009, with the spread of the global crisis, to distinguish winners from losers.
Among the expected winners were petrochemical companies, oil refiners and other capital-intensive industries -- not a surprise, perhaps, since Mr. Bush's new business tax tracked closely a proposal offered to the governor by Charls Walker, a former Washington lobbyist who ran a tax-advocacy organization financed mostly by capital-intensive industries that favored the Bush plan.
