Sentence examples for a contest for a from inspiring English sources

It won't be a contest for a fourth Labour government.

"I am doing my best to win a contest for a clearly political office.

The last time a contest for a Westminster seat was declared void because of malpractice was in 1923.

In 1925, the Daughters of the American Revolution held a contest for a design for the flag.

One day in 1974 he walked into Sardi's in response to a contest for a new caricature artist.

They're 12-foot-long ice boats named after The Detroit News, which held a contest for a new iceboat design.

In local elections on Saturday, a veteran white politician, Jacquelyn B. Clarkson, defeated an African-American candidate, Cynthia Willard-Lewis, by 53percentto47percentcent, in a contest for an at-large Council seat decided largely along racial lines.

Giulia, who spoke Italian when she was at home with her mother, Maria Lewis, an Italian immigrant, had recently won a contest for an essay written in Italian, Ms. Reyes said.

Then he entered — and won — a contest for writing a picture book.

A presidential election is a contest for the future.

A big-name performer setting up a contest for composers and an acclaimed composer setting up a contest for performers: the International Tchaikovsky Competition these are not.