Sentence examples for nominees among from inspiring English sources

Mr. Romney led the field of nominees among likely Republican primary voters, with 38 percent of support, up 10 points from the previous poll in January.

I ask only because a USA Today poll puts him top of the Republican nominees among likely primary voters at 17%, just ahead of Jeb Bush on 14%.

The organizers of the Chinese version of the Nobel, the Confucius Prize, had intended to give it in December to one of eight nominees, among them Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian prime minister, and a young Tibetan man whom the Communist Party had appointed to be the Panchen Lama.

Other nominees — among them the defeated House member and Tea Party firebrand Allen B. West of Florida; Mr. Boehner's own second-in-command, Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia; and retired Gen. Colin L. Powell — drew 14 protest votes from members of both parties.

In 1988, the congestion was so bad outside the Shrine Auditorium that presenters and nominees, among them Fatal Attraction's Glenn Close, were forced to ditch their cars and jog down the street to make it on time.

The 76-person committee was reportedly split as to whether to give it to Mugabe or the other nominees, among whom were South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

Mitt Romney emerged not only as the winner but also as the preferred nominee among Republican primary voters, according to a survey of voters exiting the New Hampshire polls.

But this year, no so much: There's only one Best Picture nominee among the 35 highest-grossing movies, and the Oscar went, almost by default, to a movie that's destined to become a trivia answer rather than a classic.

Romney's strategy is reportedly based on the idea that John McCain's campaign was "disastrously run" — that McCain "blew it" on selecting his Vice-Presidential nominee, among other things.

To some extent, the race for the Democratic nomination — which pits Quinn and Weiner against Bill de Blasio, the public advocate, and Bill Thompson, the 2009 nominee, among others — has been an anachronistic sequence of genuflections before the teachers' union, African-American voters, Orthodox Jews, animal-rights advocates.

One jarring omission was the absence of a single black nominee among the 20 acting finalists -- or, indeed, outside of the documentary or short-subject competitions, the absence of any nominated films either about the black experience or pitched to black audiences.