Sentence examples for winner ahead from inspiring English sources

With potential matchups against Colorado, Portland and Real Salt Lake-LA's winner ahead, uncertainty could be the downfall of MLS's most-expensive squad.

And a favourite for me because it's the first time I have read a Booker winner ahead of the book actually winning the prize.

Given a fair wind – or, a lack of any – the Swansea Harrier, a mightily impressive winner ahead of Jackson in Birmingham a fortnight ago, could be pushed inside Akabusi's record.

This was not a course that favoured the brute-force style of the Colombian Santiago Botero, surprise winner ahead of Armstrong in the first long time-trial stage of this Tour between Lanester and Lorient, and he faded to eighth.

A big tow minutes ahead, then... 3.49pm BST Triathlon You may remember that the women's triathlon came to an incredibly close and, after much deliberation, Switzerland's Nicola Spirig was judged the winner ahead of Sweden's Lisa Norden.

Liverpool were guaranteed a World Cup winner ahead of last night's final, with Fernando Torres and Pepe Reina in the Spain squad and Dirk Kuyt starting for Holland, with Ryan Babel on the bench.

On the same day it lost heavily in a mayoral election in the Tokyo district of Machida City, home to many salaried workers who were considered a mainstay of DPJ support in last August's general election.I'm a bureaucrat, get me outta hereAdministrative reform may not sound like a vote-winner ahead of this summer's elections.

As things stand though, Liverpool are going through as group winners, ahead of Anzhi.

The United States were runaway winners ahead of Belgium and Britain's quartet of Conrad Williams, Nigel Levine, Chris Clarke and Richard Buck.

Members of the Screen Actors Guild voted for the winners ahead of Saturday's ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Ricco van Prooijen and Louk Verhees were comfortable winners, ahead of Bas Drijver-Sjoert Brink and Hans van de Haar-Willem Gosschalk.