Sentence examples for contest risks from inspiring English sources

So the contest risks, as one LDP member puts it, appearing to be merely a skit.

Stephen Conroy, a former communications minister, warned that a protracted contest risked making Labor into a "laughingstock".

The political ecological application of these tools, especially in visualizing, debating, and contesting risk, is underdeveloped, however.

In 1947 she went to Stresa to compete in the Miss Italy beauty contest, despite risking disqualification because she had been married.

In the run-up to polling day this contest has risked descending into a plebiscite on whether immigrants are a good or a bad thing.

It follows from this that any referendum is inherently a contest between the risks or rewards of change.

"The major risk," he said, "is this is a hotly contested political contest and the court runs the risk of being tarred as partisan".

"The trick is to strike the right balance between giving them enough so they'll take it and not contest it and risk losing their inheritance," Ms. Klein said.

Risk parity critics rarely contest the claim that the risk parity portfolio is near the tangency portfolio but they say that the leveraged investment line is less steep and that the levered risk parity portfolio has slight or no advantage over 60% stocks / 40% bonds, and carries the disadvantage of greater explicit leverage.

Greaves fought the unbeaten prospects, the winning fighters who need a contest without too much risk, and since turning professional in 2007 he has met 70 boxers who had not lost a fight.

(Even the term "win-win" suggests a contest that could involve risk and opposition).