Sentence examples for a competitive nomination from inspiring English sources
The remaining 30 governors, who are selected by local Red Cross chapters through a competitive nomination process, really control the organization.
As is to be expected when one party has a competitive nomination and the other does not, Mr. Romney and his rivals are losing ground to the Democratic incumbent, Mr. Obama.
This is arguably the more relevant comparison because Democrats do not have a competitive nomination race this year, freeing up voters who might have voted in the Democratic primary to vote in the Republican one instead.
Here's the thing: Because of the way that the Republican Party's higher-ups designed this primary season — frontloading it with primaries that award delegates proportionally, and saving the winner-take-all states for later — even a remotely competitive nomination battle was always likely to carry on, in some sense, deep into the spring.
There have been only about 15 competitive nomination contests since we began picking presidents this way in 1972.
I went through our database of past primary polls for the 16 competitive nomination races from 1972 (when the current primary system was adopted) to 2008.
As a result of this rebuff to the entitlement strategies of Mr. Gore and Gov. George W. Bush, Americans may get to witness one of the more competitive nomination battles in memory.
The meeting on the campus of the University of New Hampshire, televised nationally by MSNBC, comes days after the combatants finished in a virtual tie in the Iowa caucuses -- Clinton claimed the narrowest of victories there – and as the unexpectedly competitive nomination contest appears set to move beyond New Hampshire, where Sanders currently boasts a double-digit lead in public polling.
For Republicans, the national polls have been the better predictor, having called six out of the seven competitive nominations in the modern primary era correctly.
Speaking of Beatty, he and George Clooney are now the only two people to have competitive nominations in the picture, director, screenplay and acting categories.
Cilley and Hassan are locked in a competitive battle for the Democratic nomination -- the two are the only Democratic women seeking a governorship this year.
