Sentence examples for preferred contender from inspiring English sources

Since the prince's aging father had taken the throne in 2015, the Emiratis were betting heavily on the prince as their preferred contender in the succession struggles within the Saudi royal family.

A division of the Trump campaign known as the Delegates and Party Organization unit has closely tracked state party leadership elections and occasionally weighed in to help a preferred contender.

Out-maneuvered in 2010 when his preferred contender was defeated, McConnell responded this time by hiring a top aide to Paul as his own campaign manager.

Some activists fought for anyone but Trump during the Republican primary, preferring other contenders for president whom they saw as better faces for the cause.

The candidate thus rejected is the least relevant because, on average, the voters prefer other contenders; he would lose many one-on-one contests.

Many antiabortion activists preferred other Republican contenders for president, particularly Sens. Ted Cruz (Tex). and Marco Rubio (Fla)., whose antiabortion credibility is ironclad.

Her 11-year-old brother, Marlon Brando Brown (his mother was a fan of the actor and was not necessarily dreaming that her son would become a contender), prefers boxing to the neighborhood's more popular sport, basketball.

In an interview with the newspaper Stockholm City on 8 March 2004, Reinfeldt said that he preferred Bush over the Democratic Party contender John Kerry, and in a poll conducted by the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet in April 2004, Reinfeldt like a large majority of his party favoured Bush over Kerry.

Even many Democratic critics of the drug industry, and of Gottlieb himself, privately indicated they strongly preferred him to another frequently mentioned contender, Jim O'Neill, an associate of Silicon Valley billionaire and Trump adviser Peter Thiel.

Nigeria's system favours the incumbent, who can steer a vast patronage network serviced by the energy revenues of Africa's largest oil and gas producer.Many voters are unkeen on all the PDP contenders, preferring candidates such as Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler, or Nuhu Ribadu, a former head of the anti-corruption agency.

He said that Twitter takes a different route than current social contenders, preferring to pare down its services, "We're thinking about how we can simplify the product even further.