Sentence examples for contest over with from inspiring English sources

Some of them begin to support Mr. Romney just to get the contest over with.

This signalled contest over with more than three-quarters still to play.

With an increasing number of Republican party leaders endorsing Mr. Romney, and with Mr. Santorum having trouble driving home his message, Republicans are growing accustomed to the notion that he is likely to be their nominee, and some may be prepared to get the contest over with.

Another way of viewing the motorsport battle, and the earlier occupation of Pearl Roundabout in Bahrain, is as a contest over public space – with aggrieved citizens seeking to appropriate it.

When he got his first chance to enter the game, the contest appeared over with the Tritons going up by as many as 20 points.

Glamorgan ended the contest 162-2 off 31 overs with openers Mark Wallace and Jacques Rudolph scoring 37 and 44 respectively.

The mayor's race in Little Rock, Ark., is a four-way contest over ways to deal with a surge in violent crime and the overflowing Pulaski County Jail.

That point of view has undergone a transformation in the past weeks, and paradoxically, they were weeks in which the euro's fiercest opponent, the Conservative leader, William Hague, succeeded in his longtime goal of turning the election into a contest over Britain's relationship with the rest of Europe.

John Isner claims the all-American Independence Day contest over on court 14, with a straight-set victory over Taylor Fritz.

With the contest over, the game fizzled out during the final 30 minutes with referee Mike Jones waving away Henderson's claims for a penalty.

With him at the fore, the next election could become a contest over whom voters trust more with the economy: all the more reason, perhaps, to field Congress's smug feline against the BJP's gruff bear.