Sentence examples for position as a contender from inspiring English sources
Christie's emphatic win in New Jersey cemented his position as a contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 and provided a boost to moderates in the GOP who have been battling with hardline conservatives.
It became possible to gain some idea whether the Maxxi's ¤150m cost, the 11 years it has taken to realise, and its position as a contender for this year's Stirling prize, were justified.
The bigger question in political circles was his positioning as a contender for the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination.
For all the changes the Rangers have made in the past year, for all their free-agent signings and their positioning as a contender, they find themselves in exactly the same hole they fell into last season: behind, 2-0, in a second-round playoff series that started with so much hope.
On Sunday, Hadley will compete in the Cleveland Marathon, which she hopes to finish in 2 hours 40 minutes — a time that would position her as a contender.
The Riders missed out on a chance to cement their position as a leading contender for one of the lower play-off spots.
His comments are likely to be seen as positioning himself as a contender in the event of the Lib Dems suffering a devastating loss of MPs at the election.
He had brought the team their only two Super Bowls, and kept them in position as an annual contender.
Nearly a month into her first U.S. stint in a decade (which began in Baltimore June 16 and winds up in Texas in early September), she's already blazing a money trail that will position her band as a contender for the year's most successful tour.
In round-table discussion format, students explore the direct meaning and subtext of Ms. Ferraro's heavily criticized statement, "if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position" as a leading presidential contender.
It was a copybook weekend from the German, exactly what he needed to re-establish his position as a credible championship contender in many eyes.
