Sentence examples for Serious contest from inspiring English sources

2. Contest: There is no serious contest for the incumbent party nomination.

The election which followed Kinnock's resignation in 1992 was never a serious contest.

Contest: There is no serious contest for the incumbent-party nomination.

One reason Mr. Talmadge never had a serious contest until 1980 was unfailing attention to constituents.

In a slightly unusual turn of events, however, it's turning into a serious contest between two Democrats.

There is still time to make this election a serious contest of ideas, but that time is running out fast.

Romney took Wyoming, Michigan and Nevada, none of them regarded as serious contests by most Republicans.

The organization, the Fund for Modern Courts, found that Democrats won 83 of 85 elections for Civil Court judgeships in the city in the last five years, and only four elections during that time could be termed serious contests with Republicans.

Presidential elections in Iran raise a puzzling contradiction: How can the government include both an unelected supreme leader and a president who is chosen in votes that are treated as serious contests?

January 7 , 20143.20am GMT Ava Ttoir on FSU and adveristy continued 7 of their 13 games before this one were serious contests, only 2 of the others were true blow-outs, and they actually lost their 4th game of the season to a familiar old-time regional rival, Louisiana State.

The sport's first serious contests took place in the 1960s and 1970s, initially described as 'hot-dogging'.