He was the favoured candidate to take over as prime minister, and thus became Britain's war leader.

In addition, in some cases we may not inform candidates that they have been unsuccessful until an offer has been accepted by the favoured candidate.

Gingrich was confident that he is now the favoured candidate for the Republican nomination even before Cain dropped out.

At present Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is the favoured candidate.

The figures clearly show that many members voted against their leaderships' favoured candidates.

They ran on an independent list against the favoured candidate of then Labor leader Yitzhak Rabin.

He was even said to be the Cardinal's favoured candidate.

As might be supposed, West German parties do indeed use their regional lists to promote the election of their most favoured candidates.

Gagarin was also a favoured candidate by his peers.