The part of the sentence "conduct a contest" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of organizing and managing a competition. For example: "The company decided to conduct a contest to find the best new logo design."
4. As a class, conduct a contest that attempts to determine a "best book".
In 1996, the Legislature commanded the New Jersey Council on the Arts to conduct a contest to have a state song.
Under the program, Vogue would conduct a contest through which its readers (nearly nine million according to Mediamark Research, including copies passed along) could win a week at the World of Tommy house, complete with a Tommy wardrobe.
Justice R. Fred Lewis made the point that if the recounts "come to the eve of reporting day," Dec. 12, there would be "insufficient time, just as matter of fact, to conduct a contest," eliminating that route for any who wished to follow it.
By Evelyn Eaton The New Yorker, November 29 , 1947P. 117 At a Paris theatre Sacha Guitry conducts a contest for promising child actors, aged 6 and less.
At the same time, Fish conducted a contest with American interventionists who wished to land troops in Cuba in order to help rebels attempting an overthrow of Spanish rule.
To kick-start the launch the company conducted a contest for a new Brawny man no longer muscular and blonde "in a porn star kind of way," says Correll, but slimmer, darker and clean-shaven.
We may not be as familiar with Schoo, a Japanese MOOC with $1.5 million, Futurelearn from England, or iversity, a Berlin based MOOC that conducted a contest giving 25,000 Euros (about $38,000) to the top ten ideas for creating an online course.
It was odd, I admit, to conduct such a contest as the Nets were embarking on the N.B.A.'s longest winning streak, but logic has never been a strong point of this column.
At noon today, Harrah's casino will conduct a beauty contest for black cats.
Appellants' third contention is that the Board was unauthorized to fundamentally restrict stockholders' rights to conduct a proxy contest.
