Saudi analysts say that the contest shapes family actions like none other, stirring factional rivalries that probably have forced Abdullah to tone down his drive for austerity.
It is particularly relevant to understanding the debates and conflicts around who will be Nigeria's next president, principally as the contest shapes up to pit southern incumbent Goodluck Jonathan against northern former military head of state Muhammadu Buhari.
A contest-shape professional bodybuilder is somewhere between 3% and 4%.
He cited contests shaping up in Brookhaven, Huntington and Smithtown as well as Islip.
CAIRO — The Egyptian election authorities eliminated three of the country's leading presidential candidates in one broad stroke on Saturday night in an unexpected decision that once again threw into disarray the contest to shape the future of Egypt after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.
For the next several months, the Republican contest may shape up as a fundamental question for Republican voters as they seek a candidate to challenge Mr. Obama for the right to occupy the Oval Office: whether they want a Texas Republican or a Massachusetts one.
The U.S. and China used to joust mainly over specific issues — human rights, hacking, the South China Sea — but, today, they are engaged in a larger contest to shape the world order "by having their values and policies accepted on the global stage," as Robert Daly, the director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson Center, recently wrote.
The far more significant question is how these contests take shape once the second, small, unrepresentative contest in New Hampshire next week ends, and significant numbers of voters begin to weigh in.
The contest is shaping up to be a three-way fight.
