Sentence examples for a contest of a from inspiring English sources

In a contest of a Miami mayoral race in 1997, it took an appeals court months to decide that, because of absentee ballot fraud, the candidate who had already been sworn in as mayor had not won.

It will also be – with apologies to Nick Clegg who has not yet selected his own historical alias – a contest of a man pretending to be Roosevelt against a man trying to be Baldwin.

Furthermore, the observation on the minimum dose of prophylactic drugs used is not at all useful in a contest of a definition of refractoriness.

BBC WM's Clive Eakin: "Warwickshire will take some credit for making a contest of a match which had looked decided at the halfway stage.

There is a contest of terrorism, there is a contest of fundamentalism.

It was a riveting match, a contest of contrasting styles.

"It wasn't a contest of egos, more a roomful of peers".

"If the Tories want to have a contest of ideas instead of a contest of advertising budgets, I am very confident we can win that".

Their marriage quickly devolves into a contest of wills, an awkward exchange of hot rebellion and chilly condescension.

Politics is a contest of ideas and personalities, not an academic debate.

But it was not what I would call a debate – that is a contest of ideas.