| They were followed by the telecommunications sector, also a front-runner in years past. |
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| It appears that they did this because they wanted to finish the campaign looking like a front-runner. |
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| The Commission is thus following an ambitious strategy to become a front-runner in the domain of e-administration. |
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| The ad hoc committee regretted that, in general, this campaign was not competitive given that one front-runner dominated the political scene. |
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| Sweden has long been a front-runner in governance for the environment and sustainable development. |
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| I was inspecting our latest front-runner, and, like so many others, finding frightful blemishes. |
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| During the Carnival a wide draw has proved no disadvantage on the dirt and this front-runner will soon be bowling along at the head of affairs. |
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| The Republican front-runner claimed that he gave away 13 percent of his income charitably. |
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| Sometimes a long period of whittling away at the front-runner can lead to boredom and apathy. |
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| The wooden spoon may beckon for St Johnstone, but were there an award for plain speaking, the club chairman would be an undoubted front-runner. |
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| The front-runner is racing against the clock to seal the deal because the F1 season closes in only a matter of weeks. |
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| The realistic front-runner is Keller, currently a Times op-ed columnist writer and Sunday magazine writer. |
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| His work is widely acclaimed and was recognised by Sir Isaac Newton as a front-runner to his own theories. |
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| Apparently, it's a risk he's willing to take to solidify his front-runner status and disarm his critics in the Democratic Party establishment. |
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| The European Commission has been a front-runner in developing modern tools, such as the Eurobarometer surveys, for analysing public opinion. |
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| By Monday, Campbell was not just the clear front-runner, an uncontested coronation seemed possible. |
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| A five-way competition for the fifth spot in the rotation has no real front-runner. |
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| First, inevitably, his status as a front-runner has caused Democrats, spurred on by a media that wants a good horse race, to take a much closer look at him. |
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| He is the front-runner and I think he will continue to be the front runner until the other candidates get its message together and pull the staff together. |
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| Howard Dean transformed himself from a no-hoper into a front-runner by bad-mouthing Mr Bush. |
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| But Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner, isn't one to concede defeat easily. |
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| The Socialist Party has been knocked sideways by the arrest of its front-runner. |
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| Another front-runner, the brilliant and polarising Larry Summers, is caricatured as a nightmare to work with and a handmaiden to Wall Street. |
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| The best front-runner would be the candidate who can most effectively bridge the gap between religious and fiscal conservatives. |
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| She is the expected Democratic front-runner. |
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| At Sonepar Deutschland this is once again an opportunity, as a front-runner in the field and a partner to the trades, to capture tomorrow's markets and achieve mutual growth. |
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| Yet this 53-year-old California businesswoman is being widely touted in the South Korean media as the front-runner to head a special economic zone in Sinuiju, a Yalu River port. |
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| While EU as a whole stands out at global level as a front-runner in the fight against corruption, Eurobarometer data indicate a generalised perception that efforts seem to slow down in some European countries. |
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| While beer consumption in Germany, at 115 litres, is the undisputed front-runner worldwide, the figure for China is 29 litres and the average for the South American nations is 49 litres. |
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| The GOP front-runner refused to take an antiabortion litmus test, putting support from the religious right at risk. |
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| But if he wins a big victory here, then he will look like a certifiable front-runner, having won back-to-back victories in Iowa and New Hampshire. |
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| Howard Kurtz on why the quietest campaign may be just the ticket for the plain-vanilla front-runner. |
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| She will be a huge front-runner, so arguably she can rose garden it if she wants to, but that would be a terrible mistake. |
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| Santorum's victory broke Republican candidate Mitt Romney's winning streak and his image as an unstoppable front-runner. |
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| Take Mitt Romney, surely the most maligned front-runner of modern times. |
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| Dubai, which would be the first host of a world's fair in the Middle East, has emerged as the front-runner, offering the most financial and governmental support. |
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| I don't want to put a mocker on him or anything, but regardless of his hiatus at the moment, I think the way his form has been across the board, he has to be a front-runner. |
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| Ban was the front-runner in all the three straw polls conducted since July. |
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| For that reason, Eto'o's signing could prove a master stroke, given the fiery front-runner has pocketed Champions League winners' medals in two of the last four seasons. |
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| The left-winger went into this debate as the front-runner and by the reaction of the audience he came out as winner – with very little sign, as the other candidates claim, that his support is beginning to wain. |
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| Alongside them you have United forward Wayne Rooney, a powerful and testing presence for any defence, and Barça's lion-hearted front-runner Eto'o, scorer of 29 La Liga goals and five Champions League goals so far this season. |
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| Because no front-runner has secured more than about half of the needed delegates, there's still room for plenty of twists and turns on the campaign trail. |
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| Ban was the front-runner in all the three straw polls conducted since July, and became the only candidate to get a clear majority in the latest one Thursday. |
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| Instead, a little Silicon Valley startup called New Moon now looks like the front-runner for turning existing Windows products into rental and trialware applications. |
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| The Democrat from Utah has gone from being a dark horse to the front-runner in the campaign for President. |
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