Sentence examples for contest earlier from inspiring English sources

Tippett was diagnosed with a fractured jaw but the MRP found he had sustained the injury during a ruck contest earlier in the game.

Pedro The Great, for instance, was among the entries for this afternoon's £500,000 contest earlier in the week, but connections are playing a longer game, sending him instead for the less valuable, but Group One-tagged, Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère at Longchamp.

Then, in September, a naming contest for a baby ape in a Chinese zoo was derailed by voters who unanimously voted for it to be called Harambe McHarambeface, inspired by a similar contest earlier in the year in which people called for a boat to be called Boaty McBoatface.

Mr. Schwarzenegger said Mr. Issa's withdrawal from the contest early on was a "selfless act".

Perhaps stung by the negative commentary around their controversial selection moves, the Kangaroos were ferocious at the contest early and the Tigers looked flat in comparison.

One group that hopes to reap the benefits of that attention is the band that was runner-up to Nine Days in the WBAB contest, Early Edison.

Anthony Joshua made light work of the veteran fighter Denis Bakhtov in their WBC international heavyweight title fight, the referee stopping the contest early in the second round.

The last round resolved itself into a three-way contest early on, with the overnight leader Alistair Forsyth being challenged by Garcia and Poulter.

Because of recent changes to the rules Republicans use to allocate convention delegates, it is more difficult for a candidate to end the contest early, the way John McCain did in 2008.

In one contest, early in his career, he bought enough radio spots to qualify for a free holiday in Mexico, a prize reserved for the station's biggest advertisers.

They may actually have gained more psychologically from a narrow late success in a derby than if they had stamped some authority on the contest early on and won comfortably.