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The competitive contest is certainly a draw — it pits the first African-American to hold the nomination of a major party against a war hero who is the first Republican to share the ticket with a woman, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska.

So the harm to BSkyB of losing the contest is certainly not lethal.

A threatened proxy contest is certainly not the time to hide the company's most important fiduciaries.

The question of how we arrive at our UK entry is understandably foremost in many minds and the continued popularity of the contest is certainly reflected in the level of interest and comment it generates.

Men who have watched a contest are certainly more likely to get into a fight, he says, and "they'd probably be more likely to win".

Britain's European Union referendum is certainly such a contest.

If you win a contest dishonestly — and stealing lottery tickets is certainly dishonest — you should be ineligible for victory.

While Saturday's world title contest between Nathan Cleverly and Tony Bellew is certainly a contender for domestic fight of the year, perhaps the best performance of the night came later, away from the bright lights, down in the bowels of the arena.

While not advertised to make the HBO television broadcast, Martirosyan's 12-round light middleweight contest against Roman (34-8, 29 KOs) is certainly a pivotal bout for Martirosyan (29-0, 18 KOs) in his quest for a world title bout.

It is certainly the biggest celebrity contest in the territory's voting history.

But there is certainly no sport more full of surprises than foot-ball, and the Thanksgiving Day contest of '96 furnished as sensational a surprise in as exciting a contest as had ever come off on a western gridiron.