Sentence examples for running to head from inspiring English sources

Then on Monday markets were buoyed by reports that hawkish Larry Summers was no longer in the running to head the US Federal Reserve.

— MICHAEL D. SHEAR Mr. Romney stated that government consumes 37 percent of the economy's output, but that should be put in perspective considering that he is running to head the federal government.

Mr. Romney stated that government consumes 37 percent of the economy's output, but that figure should be put in perspective considering that he is running to head the federal government.

Behind her campaign looms the shadow of her aunt, who is running to head the north-eastern region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie and use it as a springboard for her presidential ambitions in 2017.

He said he "firmly believed" someone was out to get the club in order to damage its head coach, Bernard Laporte, who is in the running to head the French Rugby Federation.

Rippon was in the running to head up the BBC News channel – the job went to the BBC's head of editorial development, Sam Taylor, earlier this month – and was also said to have been a candidate for the controllership of Radio 4 two years ago.

Even in the race he ran to head the College Republicans in his early 20's, he and his allies were "the good guys" and his opponent and his supporters were "the bad guys".

The ceilings were blistered and stained with damp; the furnishings ran to headed lampshades and oil paintings of Calabrian maidens holding baskets of fruit.

Ms Coyle is in the running to be head of the BBC Trust after Lord Patten stepped down due to ill health.

Dutch federation president Michael van Praag and Jordanian Prince Ali bin Al Hussein are also in the running to become head of football's world governing body.

"I do not feel like a second-class citizen," he told a local newspaper last year during an aborted run to head the student union at Sapir, a college with about 100 Arabs among its 4,500 students.