Sentence examples for favourite candidate for from inspiring English sources

Yevgeny Primakov, who had been considered the favourite candidate for the presidency, was decisively defeated.

But Kisanak stands as an outspoken champion for her community and a favourite candidate for mayor in Diyarbakir – the "spiritual capital for Kurds," as she describes it.

Ravel's Bolero is his favourite candidate for a musical list: it could, after all, just go on and on for ever.

Putting R&D on the balance sheet therefore risks drastically under- or overstating the size of a company's assets, and so misleading investors.Brands, another favourite candidate for inclusion on the balance sheet, are clearly valuable, but they are also volatile.

After King Sigismund II Augustus died (July 1572), Henry of Valois, duc d'Anjou and the future Henry III of France, emerged as the favourite candidate for election to the Polish throne.

An Ipsos MORI poll for the Evening Standard found that Mr Johnson is the favourite candidate for leader among a third of Conservative supporters, a quarter back Ms May, while the number of Tories who prefer Mr Osborne has slumped to 23 per cent, slipping from first to third in the space of six weeks.

My favourite candidates for this treatment are roses, grapes, blackcurrants and gooseberries.

At the time of Iran's last presidential elections in 2009, online social tools became a phenomenon in the country with many activists taking to Facebook and Twitter to campaign for their favourite candidate.

Before the first round of the elections, VICE France handed out disposable cameras to supporters of each of France's presidential candidates to document their week, while canvassing for their favourite candidate.

The favourite candidate to succeed Sir Mervyn King is deputy governor Paul Tucker, currently responsible for financial stability.

Given that Ms Aldana was always thought to be the president's favourite candidate, she has a high bar to overcome to prove that she stands for justice for all, not a tradition of impunity for the high and mighty.