Sentence examples for prominent contender from inspiring English sources

This year Alastair Campbell's brief return to saucy fiction is the most prominent contender alongside the likes of John Updike and James Buchan.

(Among Democrats, the only prominent contender who has not made a New Hampshire trip since the last election is Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton).

But this esteem has yet to be fully cashed in at award ceremonies – though his new novel, The Finkler Question, about two old friends, one recently widowed, is a prominent contender on the Booker Prize longlist.

Andrew Balding is first and foremost a leading racehorse trainer with a prominent contender for flat racing's classics under his care; secondly, however, he's an ardent follower of Southampton FC.

Other prominent contenders are Universal's "Coraline" and Sony's "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs".

Mr. Saltsman predicts that other prominent contenders will fade, narrowing the field to perhaps two major candidates.

Other than that, former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley and former Senator Jim Webb of Virginia, whose support languishes in single digits in polls, are the most prominent contenders to take steps toward challenging her.

Abdullah institutionalised a system of building family consensus formally, by setting up (in 2006) the council that votes on the succession, and informally, by ensuring prominent contenders from the next generation have senior positions.

Two prominent contenders for the Belmont Stakes dropped out yesterday, with the trainers for Tapit and The Cliff's Edge announcing that their colts would not start in the race on Saturday.

The drift in Carlton House's price for Epsom prompted some bookmakers to suspend betting on the Derby, while others saw money for other prominent contenders, including Pour Moi, the second-favourite, and Aidan O'Brien's runners Recital and Seville.

So far this Triple Crown season has been one of the funkiest in recent memory, with prominent contenders like the San Felipe winner Premier Pegasus, the Rebel Stakes champion The Factor and, on Tuesday, the Wood Memorial victor Toby's Corner being injured and declared out of the Derby.