Sentence examples for contest in favor of from inspiring English sources

But the ballot's structure is intended, they said, to skew the contest in favor of Mr. Bush.

Untested in debate against his opponents until now, Mr. Thompson, a late entrant to the race, chose to skip the last contest in favor of announcing his candidacy on "The Tonight Show" early last month — a decision for which he was roundly criticized.

By March, efforts were underway to get Swift to bow out of the contest in favor of former US Senate candidate Mitt Romney, who had earned praise for his effective management of the Winter Olympics.

"There has to be a women's tour," Kennelly said, offering to show up for more events even though she has sworn off judged contests in favor of chasing big swells around the world.

Erotic possibilities abound, but sex in the club is ultimately another free-market competition, a contest stacked in favor of the strongest and most beautiful.

Lazaro Gonzalez is contesting a ruling in favor of the federal government and the father by a Federal district judge in Miami, K. Michael Moore, in March.

The 15-year-old Chicago boy at the center of the city's vehicle sticker contest controversy said Wednesday that his design, criticized by some for allegedly containing gang signs and ultimately dumped by the city in favor of the contest's second-place winner, was "clean".

Sanchez started the next week, but was benched in the third quarter of the Jets' contest against the Arizona Cardinals on December 2 , 2012in favor of third string back-up Greg McElroy.

Muhammad Chanzaib, 25, Mr. Salahuddin's roommate, said he was in favor of the eulogy contest.

But the alternative that Bush offered — a no-fly zone and a commitment that "we have to lead, we have to be involved" — sounded a bit like throwing out the Monopoly board in favor of a staring contest.

Mr. Icahn does not like these staggered meetings because it means that any proxy contest to unseat the Dell directors, presumably in favor of ones who would support Mr. Icahn's own recapitalization proposal to buy back 1.1 billion shares at $14 each, could happen only after the buyout vote.