Sentence examples for contest driven by from inspiring English sources

Tony Travers, director of the Greater London group at the London School of Economics, says a contest driven by popularity would make the result a close-run thing.

The problem with this interpretation is that the election was not a referendum on economic policy, but a contest primarily driven by ethnic considerations and the desire to punish a select group of oligarchs.

"The beauty contests are driven by who is No. 1," Mr. Burnett said, referring to the presentations investment banks make to win a client's business.

In some cases, the contests are driven by the city's term limit laws, which for the first time will prevent dozens of City Council members from running for re-election next year.

This year, the Republican nominating contest has been driven by a recurring series of high-profile courtships of governors and party luminaries that have ended in rejection.

"My involvement in this proxy contest has never been driven by personal reasons," he said in a statement.

Instead, the country was gripped by election fever, most of it driven by the contest between Mr. Sharif and Mr. Khan.

A race against an incumbent is always risky, but this Democratic contest has from the beginning been driven by reasons of personal timing rather than a pressing agenda that would captivate voters.

"We're driven by competition".

Helen Zille, the DA's leader, insists that voters want South African politics to be "an open contest of ideas and values", rather than driven by race: a fine aspiration but a far cry from reality.

Once seasonal affairs, campaigns from the presidential race down to House contests are becoming longer and more intense, driven by deep-pocketed donors eager to see incumbents pummeled throughout the political cycle.