Sentence examples for contest shapes from inspiring English sources

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.

He describes getting into contest shape as "the toughest thing I've ever done, physically or mentally".

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.

The contest is shaping up to be a three-way fight.

The number of Republicans questioned in the Times poll was too small to present more than a rough indication of how that contest is shaping up.

UNTIL recently, Brazil's presidential contest was shaping up as a straight fight between the veteran opposition leader, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the left-wing Workers Partyy, and Jose Serra, the standard-bearer of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's centre-right coalition.

Mr. Bush had urged Mr. Coleman, a former mayor of St . Pauland once a Democrat, to challenge Mr. Wellstone, and the contest is shaping up as one of the closest Senate races in the nation.

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.

And 23 years after my first published piece of journalism – an interview with the three candidates for the constituency at the 1987 general election for my school magazine – I've been back regularly over the past few months to find out how this year's contest is shaping up.