Sentence examples for obvious favorite from inspiring English sources

Dallas political observers think Ms. Johnson is the obvious favorite.

Several teams could in a tournament that lacks an obvious favorite.

On the men's side, Djokovic, Gilbert said, seemed the obvious favorite, a sore right shoulder notwithstanding.

Green Bay's significant lead in that metric — along with having home field advantage in the N.F.C. playoffs — makes them an obvious favorite to reach the title game.

There is no obvious answer, not even an obvious favorite in light of Woods's fluctuating form and Padraig Harrington's disappointing season.

Unlike most of the match-ups in this first round, where it's easy just to mark the higher-seeded team as the obvious favorite, this series is a complete question mark.

But no matter how calm Torre looked or how stoic the Yankees seemed, this is a different setting for them because they are not the obvious favorites to win a third straight World Series title.

Those who looked for an Elizabethan character in the story pointed to Daenerys, but Martin is not the kind of writer to have the obvious front-runner and crowd favorite win it all (just ask Ned, Robb, Catelyn and Oberyn).

But there's no obvious crowd favorite among the Republicans who might run against President Obama in 2012.

Baghdatis, a Cypriot with a most un-tennis-like body — stocky — but with a big lovable grin, was an obvious crowd favorite, which bothered Mirnyi not a jot.

The most obvious early favorite was Suzan-Lori Parks's "Topdog/Underdog," the savage drama of two brothers trying a big con, which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and had many enthusiastic reviews.