Sentence examples for awkward contest from inspiring English sources

Pam Ayres, The Necessary Aptitude v Sue Johnston, Things I Couldn't Tell My Mother The draw results in a somewhat awkward contest between veteran poet and alleged British institution Ayres and Brookside, Waking the Dead and Royle Family star Johnston.

Next month is the Corby byelection, the first in a Conservative seat since the general election – the absence of such awkward contests has been a characteristic piece of Cameron luck – and Labour are likely to win it.

Supposedly, the film is about a Los Angeles getaway driver for hire, but "Drive" is really one big, awkward staring contest between Ryan Gosling and every other character -- with an occasional brutal murder thrown in to make the audience go, "I'm awake!

The second round looks set to be an awkward three-way contest with the centre-right and the Socialists.

The end result is "Impractical Jokers," a hidden camera series debuting Dec. 15 where the quartet compete in awkward and contrived contests in front of unsuspecting bystanders.

Search "vacation," for instance, and see an ad from Virgin America encouraging people to vote in Virgin's Awkward Family Vacation Photo Contest.

But the contest has raised awkward questions both about the bank and Mr Kim himself which will not be laid to rest so smoothly.The contest was unprecedented from the start, not least in that it was a contest.

Both parts of that theory could now be tested.The timing of Mr Adams's arrest is especially awkward, with Sinn Fein due to contest elections on both sides of the border this month.

Such discussions, he said, had been "awkward while there was still a contest under way".

That beauty contest put them in such an awkward spot.

The change will "inject new excitement in the contest" the organisers explained in fittingly awkward terms.