Sentence examples for avoid a contest from inspiring English sources

Hot Rod and the Tories Brinkmanship ReprintsMr Michael would clearly prefer to avoid a contest.

Labor is determined to avoid public dissent over the leadership and, if possible, also to avoid a contest.

Justine Greening, the international development secretary, suggested the party should avoid a contest at all and anoint a Johnson/May joint ticket, in either order.

I also think it is one of the secondary reasons why Brown himself was so determined to avoid a contest after he ousted Tony Blair in 2007.

He has been preserved for reasons related to Labour's constitutional need for a deputy leader and the prime minister and the chancellor's private wish to avoid a contest to fill the role this summer.

In an interview on the San Francisco talk radio station KGO, Mr. Reid said that he had spoken with Ms. Pelosi on Thursday and that they had agreed to take steps to avoid a contest that would extend into the convention in August.

He is, to be sure, avoiding a contest for the position of Republican whip, which he might have lost to Senator John Cornyn of Texas, who leads the party's campaign arm.

Accordingly, Douglas thought that the doctrine of popular sovereignty, which had been applied to the territories gained from Mexico, would avoid a political contest over the Kansas territory: it would permit Southern slaveholders to move into the area, but, since the region was unsuited for plantation slavery, it would inevitably result in the formation of additional free states.

The best way to avoid a will contest brought by aggrieved relatives?

on 16 May, Channel 4 News announced that Andrew Mackinlay had nominated Brown, giving him 308 nominationsenough to avoid a leadership contest.

The reality behind the facade, as we see from her attempts to avoid a primary contest and duck debates and the press, as well as her false claim about herself in her introductory TV ad, is different.