Sentence examples for favored to become from inspiring English sources

Hillary Clinton is favored to become the next president of the United States.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she will be favored to become only the second Mexican woman to win an Olympic gold medal.

Another race of strong interest to Louisiana blacks is in a Congressional district north of Baton Rouge, where Faye Williams, a lawyer, is favored to become the state's first black in the House in more than a century.

Nyquist will run out of the No13 post in Saturday's 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby and is favored to become the eighth undefeated horse to win America's most famous thoroughbred race.

Favored to become the host city for the 2008 Summer Games, Beijing is apparently being extremely careful to avoid another doping scandal like those that tarnished the accomplishments of its swimmers in recent years.

Even after a precampaign diet last year — less wine, less cheese and especially less chocolate — François Hollande, the Socialist who is currently favored to become the next president of France, still has a soft face and looks slightly sloppy in his medium-gray suits.

The contrasting sights on a brisk Wednesday afternoon went from Lee Westwood, the Englishman who some experts favor to become the first European in 40 years to hoist the Open trophy, to qualifiers with carry bags who probably have no chance of making the cut, to tour pros who were not among the 78 exempt players.

By 2000, Mr. Hagel had returned the favor to become national co-chairman of Mr. McCain's presidential campaign.

I grew up in an America where I didn't have to sleep with anyone or curry sexual favors to become a leader in my field.

So as surprising as it was last month when Ms. Fischer defeated two heavily favored opponents to become the Republican nominee for Nebraska's soon-to-be vacant United States Senate seat, those who have followed her career say it fit right in with her record of determination and achievement.

On the night before the election, it would have predicted Hillary Clinton to win the national vote by 1.2percentt (close to the actual electoral result: +2.1 percent), and would have favored her to become the next president with a probability of 59percentt.