Sentence examples for contest points from inspiring English sources

The presenter, who died following a short battle with cancer, was a figure much beloved for his work on the likes of Children in Need, his breakfast show, and everyone's favourite vox-pop-based televisual opinion slinging contest Points of View.

So it has been in the contest, point and counterpoint, charge and countercharge, tit for tat.

McEnroe served and volleyed as Borg stood stoic at the base line contesting points so complex and involved they felt like short stories.

By 2008, Karl Rove revealed in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that he and the President had been engaging in yearly reading contests (points for volume rather than style or taste), good-natured challenges where each man attempted to get through more than a book a week.

Those contests point to the power of incentive prizes to attract ideas and skills from unlikely sources.

With Clinton's inevitability turned to dust and her losses in eleven straight contests pointing to the likely end of her campaign, the candidate and her staffers are busying themselves with ominous tasks to fend off the shock.

The format of "Whose Line" is ostensibly a contest, with points awarded by Mr. Carey.

These days when his serve falters, as it did last night, he appears like a sitting duck, for he lacks the stamina to contest long points with young guns like Hewitt.

We run this week's contest — which points to some of the actor's more memorable recent quotations — without any comment on the larger question of whether it's sensible or morally sound to give this man such general attention.

While Gatoff stops short of saying the company's growth is entirely attributable to the hot-dog-eating contest, he points out that it is the centerpiece of the company's consumer marketing strategy.

The Corbyn campaign calls it "a new low" for the leadership contest and points out that in 1986 Corbyn called for an independent inquiry into the allegations.