Sentence examples for conducted a contest from inspiring English sources

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.

In 1996, the Legislature commanded the New Jersey Council on the Arts to conduct a contest to have a state song.

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.

When Rosemary was in high school and Betty was in junior high, radio station WLW in Cincinnati conducted a talent contest.

CNBC, the financial cable network, conducted a national contest that enrolled teams of 4th to 12th graders from roughly 13,500 schools, students like Anish and Nirav, who saw the market lucre as even more appealing than slasher movies and possibly girls.

In partnership with Magic 106.7, Summit Entertainment conducted a band contest in Boston suburb's Burlington Mall.

To celebrate their new surroundings, the club conducted a logo contest the following year.

It conducted a design contest for a dreadnought in 1906, but the Duma refused to authorize it, preferring to spend the money on rebuilding the Army.

JPMorgan Chase & Company is coming under fire for the way it conducted an online contest to award millions of dollars to 100 charities.