Sentence examples for contest less from inspiring English sources

There he will begin doing what incumbent presidents of both parties do when facing a tough re-election race: trying to make the contest less a referendum on their record than a choice between two competing options.

Much work remained, with Team USA's first Olympic contest less than a week away, but not until after a potential gold-medal-game preview that counts for nothing but could hold major Olympic implications anyway.

Braddock is entered late for the contest, less as an underdog than as a sacrificial offering, and when he turns it around the crowd — Braddocks to a man — begins to sniff a hero.

But over the course of the first hour of the debate, his odds steadily plunged to 12 percent, meaning that the traders were now betting that he had a one in eight chance of winning Tuesday's contest — less than half the likelihood they foresaw before the debate began.

The Des Moines Register endorsed Romney in the contest less than two weeks ago.

Early primaries should be held in states where only Republicans are allowed to vote, which might make the contests less bruising, he said.

Republicans still are trying to localize their races so that voters see those contests less as a referendum on the president and more as a choice between GOP incumbents and the Democratic challengers.

Cystic hydatidosis should always be considered in the differential diagnosis of any cystic mass, regardless of its location, also in epidemiological contests less suggestive of the disease.

One reason is that slight errors in a political contest matter less in market research.

The vice-presidential contest was less consequential and testier, but it put the two sides' records under sustained scrutiny.

But the broader effect on the contest is less clear, particularly if the Republican field remains fractured.