Sentence examples for contest to something from inspiring English sources

In January, a story in Le Monde had likened the contest to something out of a Quentin Tarantino film, "one of those B-movie pastiches where each character who seems designated to be the hero finds himself 'smoked' by a Magnum to the head".

A city councilman and a city attorney are facing off in Tuesday's mayoral election, but their contest also amounts to something of a referendum on what is referred to here as "the Seattle Way".

To rebut is to contest or deny something; to refute is to prove that it's wrong.

Whether you set up a contest to see who can accomplish something the fastest on a certain day, or if you have a competition to see who can generate the most revenue by the end of the month, any contest that has a reward, even if it's silly, will keep your employees motivated to produce solid work.

It became something of a contest to see who could find the most amazing item in the branches.

Maybe Twain's intense attachment to his writing contest had something to do with the fact that he finally had a plot in place and wanted to show that he could beat any author with it.

7. Don't do a crazy expensive contest giving away something like an iPad -- thousands of people will enter the contest to win the iPad -- but not be incentivized in any way to buy the book.

Among other things, the act requires debt collectors to inform debtors that they have 30 days to contest a debt -- something a three-day notice clearly fails to do.

The inspiration for the contest is something that happened to Ryan Bearden, the director of marketing at Carino's, while he was eating at a Carino's in Austin, Tex.

Indeed, Clinton is trying — really she is — to make this contest about something other than bluster.

I'm rooting for Hawkins and Brown because even though a duo is the least likely combination to win the contest, something tells me they've got the potential to be the next Bobbysocks.