Simply put, Seltzer endorsed the inevitable winner making it look like he crowned a new mayor.

Obama knows all too well that Clinton stands as the odds-on, even inevitable, winner of the nomination and for good reason: She is the best known, has the most formidable organization, the most money, the greatest expertise.

Tribute Magazine tells its upwardly mobile black readers that for all the pain that apartheid has inflicted, they are inevitable winners and will be entrusted with the country's fate once white minority domination collapses.

First, they say, before his loss in New Hampshire, he was seen as the inevitable winner of the Republican nomination, and possibly the presidency.

If Mr. Dukakis now is viewed as an inevitable winner, and Mr. Jackson is no longer feared as a likely alternative, Mr. Dukakis's strength paradoxically might be diminished in the remaining states.

Mr. Fleischer's obvious intentions were to project an aura of strength around the Bush campaign and to give Mr. Bush the luster of an inevitable winner, images that could sway some undecided voters in the end.

Most had concluded that the Emerson Electric Company, which makes many components that Thermo King could use in manufacturing refrigeration equipment for trucks and containers, would be the inevitable winner.

After waging 10 election campaigns without a defeat, Guy V. Molinari looked like the inevitable winner when he entered the race for Staten Island District Attorney.

Yes, probably about £80 million worth of substitutions and an inevitable late winner, but you can't blame a humble live blogger for trying to add a little jeopardy.

You know, perhaps, that I am the inevitable winner now; I and my heirs.