Sentence examples for be the first contest from inspiring English sources

Nevada will be the first contest this election season where there will likely be a significant number of Mormon voters – a boon for Mr. Romney, who is Mormon.

There is little chance of rain shown in the forecast for Saturday evening, and the schedule on Ashe allows for the men's doubles final to follow the semifinal between Caroline Wozniacki and Serena Williams scheduled to be the first contest of the Saturday night session on Ashe.

Yob wrote that those three primaries "could be the first contests that are a one-on-one between a conservative and a moderate".

When was the first contest?

Proposition 8 vs. the Defense of Marriage Act is the first contest before the Court.

That state's caucus is the first contest in the long primary season.

The Florida race is the first contest that approaches the scale of a general election fight, where retail campaigning is significantly overshadowed by advertising.

It was the first contest of the year where only registered Republicans could participate, with independents and crossover Democrats restricted from casting ballots in the primary.

This is the first contest in a monster three-game stretch for Texas, which plays host to West Virginia next week and meets Oklahoma in Dallas in two weeks.

They were also looking to benefit from the fact that Michigan is the first contest where Mr. Bush has a sitting governor, John Engler, working strenuously for him.

Tuesday is crunch time: the Iowa caucuses are the first contest in a Republican battle that could potentially be fought, state by state, all the way to the summer.