Sentence examples for immediate frontrunner from inspiring English sources

But when Smith died, Blair was the clear, immediate frontrunner and persuaded Brown to withdraw in his favour.

Clinton would be the first Democratic presidential candidate to declare for the 2016 election – and certainly the immediate frontrunner.

The immediate beneficiary was Huck's best frenemy Mitt Romney, who cemented his frontrunner status and topped it off with an eight-hour fundraising event that took in a cool $10 million.

Bouyed by the narrowest of possible victories in Iowa, the Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney landed in New Hampshire and ignored his party rivals to launch an immediate attack on President Barack Obama.

Pinter was the frontrunner.

Mr Modi is the frontrunner for now.

Instead, Nawaz Sharif has emerged the frontrunner.

The immediate benefits of Abbott's candidacy are obvious: her political stance and pedigree, her ethnicity and her sex bring welcome variety to a contest whose frontrunners appear suffocatingly similar, both ideologically and culturally.

He is considered the frontrunner.

She's the feminist frontrunner.

Moderate Tory frontrunner Sir George Young?