Sentence examples for carrying contest from inspiring English sources

Finland is, after all, a country that also hosts the world fart championships, an international wife carrying contest and a mobile phone throwing competition.

Last-minute Grammy production changes continued even as advance promotion for the event intensified, with the takeoff on Thursday morning of a Grammy-branded 757 jetliner for Los Angeles carrying contest winners who watched John Legend perform an in-flight concert.

But the show's hosts broadcast it anyway, between a piece on the winners of the third annual North American Wife Carrying Contest in Newry, Maine, and an interview with Jay Leno.

Those who don't like bogs can take part in the wife-carrying contest, which is also happening in Llanwrtyd Wells.

At first, he was present at Sonkajärvi in July in a wife-carrying contest.

It is illogical to interpret section 102.168(3)(c) to set such a low standard where a plaintiff merely has to allege a cause of action to successfully carry the contest.

A number of factors may combine to carry the contest well into the spring: the rise of the so-called "super PACs," which can spend unlimited amounts of money to help the candidates of their choice; new Republican rules allowing even losers to claim percentages of delegates in more than half of the contests this year; and the never-say-die ethos of the Gingrich campaign.

Leinster's forwards grew into the contest, carrying well at close quarters, but the Michael Swift-inspired Connacht were finding holes in the hosts' defence.

And, of course, there is "the water-carrying contest to protect the seedlings amid drought", a perennial favourite.The Chinese Peasant Olympics, which finished this month in the southern city of Quanzhou, have been held every four years since 1988.

For those inexperienced in wife carrying, the contest's website verses you in different styles – the wife dangling upside down on the carrier's back, or being thrown over on the shoulder – and offers tips on where to practice, such as at the local supermarket.

He pleaded no contest to carrying a concealed firearm and was sentenced to three years in probation.