Sentence examples for perceived frontrunner from inspiring English sources

Scottish Labour is announcing its new leader, with former UK cabinet minister Jim Murphy the perceived frontrunner to win the contest.

By the start of the year Lincoln had garnered the most Golden Globe and Oscar nominations and was the perceived frontrunner.

Scottish Labour is set to announce its new leader, with former UK cabinet minister Jim Murphy the perceived frontrunner to win the contest.

But MP Jim Murphy, the perceived frontrunner in the contest to lead the party, later backed the full devolution of income tax, as supported by the Conservatives, Lib Dems, Greens and the Scottish government.

The East Renfrewshire MP has been the perceived frontrunner all along and he's regarded by key figures in the party as the best - and perhaps only - hope of making Scottish Labour winners once again.

Earlier in the process, it looked possible that companies could band together to form unlikely alliances against the perceived frontrunner, though it appears in the final request for proposal that the Pentagon plans to award the contract to a single company capable of handling it.

Sullivan, the former commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources, is the perceived Republican frontrunner in a primary that also includes Treadwell, the state's lieutenant governor, and attorney Joe Miller, who lost to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in 2010.

"Certainly people who are perceived as frontrunners are largely there as a result of name recognition," he said.

(In the United States, China was widely perceived as the frontrunner, and it is not clear that Congress's position would have had any impact on its chances).

In March, she announced her bid to run for mayor and was widely perceived as the Democratic frontrunner, garnering endorsements from the city's top three newspapers.

Throughout the 2012 Republican primaries, candidates who were not seen as electable or well-funded as Mitt Romney would rise in polling as far-right, tea party voters searched for an alternative to what they perceived as an insufficiently conservative frontrunner.