Although the contest is fairly close, polls of gubernatorial races are ordinarily quite reliable in the late stages of a race.
Although the contest will be decided by a ballot of the party's entire membership, the figures suggest a strong preference for Mr Clegg at Westminster.
Although the contest rules said that only children 5 to 8 could participate, a few younger brothers and sisters did slip in.
Richard Avedon has described how he, too, outwits the vigilance of his sitters or waits for their moment of surrender, although the contest hinted at in his portraiture seems fairer.
Although the contest tackled hot-button issues like same-sex marriage and the flagging health of Australia's resource-driven economy, it was Mr. Rudd's use of props that dominated the headlines.
Although the contest here is not formally between the political branches (since Congress passed the bill augmenting Presidential power and the President signed it), it is in substance an interbranch controversy about calibrating the legislative and executive powers, as well as an intrabranch dispute between segments of Congress itself.
Although the contest between the Kentucky Derby winner Orb and the Preakness winner Oxbow pales in comparison with rivalries like the 1989 Sunday Silence/Easy Goer battle for the Triple Crown, many of the same emotions are roiling and the outcome, however good the race, will have bittersweet consequences.
Representing the NRM, he was reelected, although the contest was clouded by allegations that Kizza Besigye, the leader of the opposition group Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), was imprisoned in the months leading up to the presidential election to stop him from participating.
Although the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination is far from settled, Mr. Obama barely mentioned Mrs. Clinton as he sought to remind voters here that domestic priorities of education, health care and even the construction of new roads and bridges had been placed on a back burner because of the high costs of the Iraq war.
"Although the contest is real, a war won't happen until one of these outside powers funds their proxies against one another directly".
