Sentence examples for contest poised from inspiring English sources

Perry and Huckabee offered the clearest indications of any speakers that they would soon jump into a contest poised to be more crowded than any in recent memory.

With the contest finely poised, good fortune intervened for Rangers.

The Fifers came more into the game thereafter to leave the contest tightly poised before they visit Balmoor.

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Peterson, batting at three for only the fourth time in his 69 ODI matches, advanced to his maiden fifty from as many balls and with De Villiers playing a succession of sweetly timed high-class strokes, the contest was delicately poised.

Now that her candidate, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, has won 18 of 20 Democratic contests and appears poised to become the nominee, Ms. Cahill is presiding over one of the more remarkable political revivals in recent times.

Various groups say they are poised to contest any penalties through the court system, in part to test the constitutionality of the new law.

But after a single-minded focus on barnstorming around Georgia leading up to the Super Tuesday contests, Mr. Gingrich is poised to gain a substantial share of the state's 76 delegates to the Republican convention.

In the four weeks leading up the critical Super Tuesday contests, Mr. Romney is poised to try to aggressively define Mr. Santorum, even while keeping pressure on Mr. Gingrich.

After extracting a win from a virtual tie in Iowa, losing overwhelmingly in New Hampshire, and rebounding in Nevada, South Carolina gave Clinton her first big win of the campaign with just three days to go before the Super Tuesday contests, where she is poised to win handily in states with similar electorates.

Democratic leaders say that Mr. Kerry seems poised to win contests this weekend in Michigan, Maine and perhaps Washington State, and that he is making an aggressive effort to win contests on Tuesday in Tennessee and Virginia.