Sentence examples for a general contest from inspiring English sources

The tournament began in 1986 as a general contest for disk jockeys.

The intent is to force Democratic Party challengers to the threatened Republican senators to compete in invented primary elections, and to buy the Republicans more time to make their cases to voters before a general contest.

A fairly general contest model is presented.

Every individual is allowed to give a maximum of $5,000 to a candidate's campaign committee per election cycle -- $2,500 for a primary and $2,500 for the general contest.

He is well situated for a general election contest.

"No constitution in the world allows a general to contest elections," Mr. Khan added.

"The highest vote-getter will certainly be perceived as the strongest candidate for a general election contest".

For that reason, Mr. Schulze is most unlikely to agree to a standstill, which would deprive him of the right to run a general proxy contest.

He is honing his message, raising money and, of course, bringing on new staff members to prepare for a general election contest against President Obama.

We've come to the end of another election night of primary voting – and did we just come up with a general election contest?

Mr. Obama's advantages are partly circumstantial: With no primary opponent, Mr. Obama, like other incumbent presidents before him, can begin preparing for a general election contest that is still more than a year away.