Sentence examples for by pageant from inspiring English sources

Ms. Prejean was fired in June by pageant officials who said she missed several scheduled appearances.

In December, chief executive Sam Haskell and board chairman Lynn Weidner stepped down after a report by HuffPost revealed disparaging emails sent by pageant leaders and staffers about former contestants, using crude language.

Aside from the actual competition, all eyes were on Miss America in the wake of the chaos that kicked off last December, when two executives resigned after the exposure of crude emails sent by pageant leaders about contestants.

This will be a much different pageant than in previous years, what with an Internet rumor -- denied by pageant officials -- that Miss France had originally been a man and Miss Brazil talking about her own plastic surgery.

Ms. Prejean, the smiling blond Southern Californian, a runner-up in the national competition who became a conservative pinup after stating her opposition to same-sex marriage in the tense closing moments of the 2009 pageant, was fired Wednesday by pageant organizers, including Donald Trump, who cited dereliction of duties.

But Gutierrez's celebration was suddenly, and awkwardly, interrupted by pageant host Steve Harvey.

As with Anne and Lizzy Rockwell's "Apples and Pumpkins," there's no story here per se, just a step-by-step pageant of autumnal pleasures.

In 2010 the museum lent the Cyrus Cylinder to Iran, only to have it welcomed by a pageant staged by President Ahmadinejad, in which Cyrus wore the insignia of the Basij militia, which the previous year had brutally beaten and killed hundreds of "Green Movement" demonstrators.

Yesterday he kept the punch lines coming as he discussed the differences between tonight's Miss USA competition and the one in the film, which included a firebombing orchestrated by the pageant producer (played by CANDICE BERGEN).

Trump supporters aren't going to be swayed by this video – indeed, they can only be nettled by the pageant of liberal-Hollywood aristocrats.

The Gloriana and hundreds of other craft hung with colorful bunting were part of an effort by the pageant's organizers to recreate a spectacle similar to the one captured by the Italian artist Canaletto in a series of celebrated paintings in 1747, "The Thames on Lord Mayor's Day".