Sentence examples for contest to try from inspiring English sources

In late 2009, he hired a marketing company in Florida to do online outreach and run a photo contest to try to get to 100,000 members.

Chipmunk love is in the air as the two trios compete in a rock contest to try to win money to keep a school music program alive.

Winston Churchill was put through his paces on several occasions, while John Major was so outraged by his treatment at the hands of the '22 that he decided to call a leadership contest to try to reassert his authority.

On Saturday this season's Fighting Fifth winner Go Native steps up to the plate in the Kempton contest to try for the second leg of the WBX-sponsored jackpot.

This is particularly true since Best Buy knows he can initiate a proxy contest to try to unseat its director, making the board even more likely to cave in to his demands.

In the spring of 2007, his sister-in-law e-mailed him an intriguing bit of news: Netflix, the Web-based DVD-rental company, was holding a contest to try to improve Cinematch, its "recommendation engine".

The software helps Major League Baseball replicate the broadcast practice of blacking out local television markets for certain sports contests to try to inspire hometown fans to buy tickets.

His plan, it seems, for this stage of the contest, was to try to get his rivals to go along with running a positive campaign, free of criticism.

You cannot go into any store today without seeing a contest for the largest pumpkin or a contest asking you to try to guess the size.

Rather than have all the fun themselves, Press Play announced "Vertigoed: A Press Play mash-up Contest," inviting readers to try their hand at Vertigo-ing any movie clips they want to.

Ben Ginsberg, a lawyer for Mr Coleman, called it merely "half-time".On January 6th, as other senators returned to Washington, Mr Coleman filed an "election contest", to be tried before a three-judge panel.