Sentence examples for leading prospect for from inspiring English sources

Dr. Goldstein, who had been a leading prospect for chancellor of the City University of New York, said today that he had ruled out seeking that job.

After spending most of 2003 reeling from his own troubles and his rivals' successes and clamoring for attention, Mr. Kerry, once considered the leading prospect for the Democratic presidential nomination, joked that he finally seemed to be getting the breaks.

Lamar Alexander, the former governor of Tennessee, recalls that he was astonished when Dr. Frist came to tell him in 1993 that he planned to challenge Senator Jim Sasser, an 18-year Democratic incumbent, a leading prospect for majority leader and an all-around powerhouse in the Senate.

Senator Goodman is a leading prospects for the Republican mayoral nomination in New York City this year.

Ms. Isaacs and Robert G. Friedman, the co-chairman of Lionsgate's Motion Picture Group, were regarded by fellow governors and other academy insiders to be leading prospects for the presidency.

Mr. Portman, who was elected to the Senate in 2010 after representing the Cincinnati area in Congress for 12 years, is seen as a leading prospect.

Custom precludes active campaigning for its top office, though Ms. Isaacs and Robert G. Friedman, the co-chairman of Lionsgate's movie group, were widely considered to be the leading prospects for the presidency.

Coughlin will return to Berkeley as a leading American prospect for the 2004 Olympics in Athens, but not any richer.

Mrs. Clinton, who is at the center of the controversy, is, of course, the leading Democratic prospect for president in 2016.

On top of that, she moved house with boyfriend and team-mate Jack Whelbourne, at the same time as dealing with the pressure of being labelled a leading British prospect for gold in Sochi.

Mike Huckabee, the leading evangelical prospect for 2016, didn't attend this year's conference.