Sentence examples for front runner as a from inspiring English sources

Mitt Romney's victory in Iowa (or not) by a tiny margin of eight votes loomed mighty large when it was pushed through the media tropes of "momentum," "running the table," and "front runner," as a visit to the Newseum's daily collection of front pages shows.

Still, Blu-ray was emerging as a front-runner as early as August.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) has also been talked about as a front-runner, as have Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala).

Bodemeister is a front-runner as well.

"Shaun's a great player, a former world and UK champion, and he's a great front-runner as well so if he gets on top of me early he will be hard to catch".

The critics who trash the Republican front-runner as a "Nazi" or "fascist" thus embolden his offended supporters who feel defamed.

Voluble as ever, he dismisses President Obama as inept and a disappointment and characterizes Hillary Rodham Clinton, the commanding Democratic front-runner, as a corporate tool and not terribly effective secretary of State.

But Mr. Kerry generally held his fire on Sunday, staying in Fargo, N.D., and taking the posture of a front-runner as he anticipated a strong showing in Tuesday's string of primaries and caucuses.

Therefore, by combining nanostructured electrodes, that have dimensions sufficient to span the plasma membrane, with electrocatalytic functionalization a sensing platform emerges as a front runner in providing a new approach to characterize intracellular events.

Jean-Marc Ayrault, the 60-year-old leader of the Socialist parliamentary group is a front-runner, as he is both a loyal party stalwart and has good links to Germany.

Robbie Grabarz believes his readiness to make 'any sacrifice possible' sparked his emergence as a front runner for a British Olympic high jump spot.