Sentence examples for is frontrunner from inspiring English sources

Kishi's grandson, Abe Shinzo, serves as chief cabinet secretary and is frontrunner to become prime minister later this year.

Truss's deputy, Barnaby Joyce, is frontrunner for the top job but he faces competition.

Four years older than Gordon Brown, the ever-youthful Ignatieff is frontrunner for the Liberal party leadership convention, which begins on Wednesday in Montreal, where this heterogeneous political party will decide its future prime ministerial candidate.

It's curious that this candour seems to have struck such a chord in Cannes – the film is frontrunner for the Palme d'Or – given the festival's lingering reputation for pretension.

Yvette Cooper is frontrunner to become Ed Miliband's shadow chancellor after she came top in last night's shadow cabinet poll, winning 232 votes, 40 more than her nearest rival, John Healey.

Hamm, who plays dissipated adman Don Draper, is frontrunner in the outstanding lead actor category against Bob Odenkirk (for Better Call Saul, Kyle Chandlerr (Bloodline), Kevin Spacey (House of Cards), Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom) and Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan).

Before he was frontrunner to become Brazil's next president, Jair Bolsonaro tried his hand at film-making.

Until recently, Marc Jacobs, creative director of Louis Vuitton, was considered to be frontrunner, but it is now believed that Raf Simons is the main contender.

And here is where the subtleties start: Fillon had been frontrunner for a reason.

In the supporting categories, three names are frontrunners.

The Tar Heels like to be frontrunners and then clamp down on defense.