Amid concerns among Tory MPs that he had undermined his own authority by laying the ground for the party's next leadership contest, Cameron addressed the claim that he was behaving arrogantly by suggesting he would like to remain as prime minister until 2020 before voters have had a chance to cast their ballot.
But similar, if lower-stakes, contests have addressed problems in computer vision, medical-data analysis, and weather prediction.
In 2006, the design magazine I.D., the Web site Treehugger, and the Sustainable Style Foundation sponsored a contest to address what they termed "the umbrella problem," which encompassed both the poor performance of umbrellas and the issue of their afterlife.
A project of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, the Climate CoLab uses a technology-enabled, crowd-based approach to tackle climate change by dividing the problem into sub-challenges, running contests that address key issues, and allowing its growing international community of more than 30,000 members to develop solutions.
The open contest sought proposals that addressed different aspects of urban life in a futurist Jerusalem.
And the first thing he did after winning the leadership contest was to address the 100,000 people in Parliament Square at the Refugees Welcome demonstration.
Burnham said the party was in danger of "turning inward and talking to ourselves" during the leadership contest instead of addressing the whole nation.
Are you suggesting that those kinds of circumstances, then, cannot be addressed under a contest?
Koch addressed the presidential contest in a general way on Sunday when reporters were present, but went further during a closed-door meeting later in the day.
We shall consider here all the scientific critics other than the phylogenetic ones addressed to our paper that Marletaz and Le Parco wholly contest in their manuscript above.
