It would be revealed, chiefly, in print, and, especially, in newspapers, where, as Thomas Jefferson explained, the "contest of opinion" was waged.
The Republican debate season may have ended Wednesday, as the 13th contest of the primary cycle, scheduled for March 21 in Salt Lake City, was cancelled.
It wasn't enough to prevent a second play-off exit in three years as understandably given their Herculean effort, they ran out of steam as the contest progressed to pose less of an attacking threat after the break.
If the Tories do win, then we may well look back in years to come as the contest that marked the beginning of the end of the current coalition.
As the contest carries on we meet some of the individual contestants.
New Zealand, facing a first-innings deficit of 132, were 10-1 overnight, but were as good as out of the contest when Pattinson removed Martin Guptill, Kane Williamson and captain Ross Taylor in the second over of the day.
The race was described by The New York Times as the toughest election contest of Eve's political career.
The Post quoted Mr. Hack as describing the contest to plan the rebuilding of the trade center as the "architectural equivalent of nuclear war".
Yet a transatlantic focus on the British crown and British colonists is irrelevant to lots of modern Americans: they are more stirred by tales of the revolution as a contest of ideas.
Some analysts have contended that the government may try to paint itself as a victim and court support by casting the sanctions as a contest of "us against them".
