Sentence examples for contest far from inspiring English sources
All of the campaign coverage makes this point, but it can't be repeated often enough: the supposedly "divisive" Democratic contest, far from turning off voters, is energizing them.
Mr. Putin won a second term in a landslide, but there was a major blemish: the O.S.C.E.'s observers called the contest far from democratic.
National Democrats, alarmed by a poll that showed the contest far closer than anticipated, are privately fretting that even a close outcome in a working-class swath of Brooklyn and Queens may foreshadow broader troubles for the party in 2012.
With Labor trailing the opposition Conservatives by 20 percentage points or more in opinion polls, 13 of Labor's 350 members of Parliament have so far called for a leadership contest, far short of the 70 required under party rules.
Mr. Lazio remains in a contest far from Rochester; he is running for a state judgeship in the Bronx that he is seen as having no chance of winning, but his presence in the contest keeps the Conservative Party, which backed him for governor, on the ballot.
But for all the back and forth that is making this primary contest far more interesting than the four-way Republican race -- go ahead, name three of the four -- the Democrats have yet to degenerate into the kind of brutal ad hominem attacks that become truly memorable.
Greenblatt said that about a third of contestants were eliminated when dictionary words came into play – and that the contest is far more competitive today than 30 years ago.
"This contest is far from over.
The outcome of that contest is far from certain.
