front-runner

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Being the front-runner is not easy and the race, which suddenly seems to have begun, is far from decided.
身為領(lǐng)先者并不容易，突然之間這場比賽似乎已經(jīng)開始，但結(jié)果如何還是未知數(shù)。
Still, accept for the sake of argument that the Republican front-runner is correct when he says that God did not create America to be just “one of several equally balanced global powers”.
但是，為了徹底討論問題，當(dāng)這位共和黨的領(lǐng)跑者說，上帝沒把美國創(chuàng)造成全球幾個(gè)差不多的列強(qiáng)國家之一時(shí)，我們承認(rèn)他是正確的。

The ruling party's Ali Ben Bongo is the front-runner in a crowded field of candidates.
The fact there is no clear-cut front-runner, as is the norm in more stagnant, authoritarian states nearby, has led many voters to seize their chance to make a difference.

Romney is currently seen as the front-runner to win the Republican nomination for president in 2012.
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In a competition or contest, the front-runner is the person who seems most likely to win it.