In most of the Tory leadership contests anyone can remember, the winner tended to be the relative newcomer with the most Eurosceptic pitch.
I cannot contest anyone else's story about Television and CBGBs, as I wasn't there at the time.
The '04 presidential contest, anyone?
If anyone contesting an election in Aspen knows that losing comes with a stiff penalty then we all lose.
Put another way, how can anyone contest the value and justifiability of the stories that we were able to publish as a result of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing: stories that informed the American public - including even the US Congress - about these incredibly consequential programs?
No one any longer seriously questions the length of the meter in ordinary use, any more than anyone contests the biological meaning of sperm or stegosaurus, systolic blood pressure, or sickle cell anemia.
Had she remained silent about that aspect of her personal life — as not only a number of male priests had done but, perhaps, a number of the new female priests as well — hardly anyone would be contesting her right as a woman to be ordained into the priesthood.
Then he thought, why not also create a contest where anyone — including scientists — could offer an explanation of a flame, and recruit 11-year-olds to judge which one is the best?
My post last week, about Roger Ebert's entries to the Cartoon Caption Contest, and how he entered all of them after winning contest No. 281, prompted a call from the magazine's P.R. department asking if Roger had entered more contests than anyone else.
Special offers, meanwhile, are everywhere: free appetizers; half-price computer repairs for soldiers' wives desperate to get e-mail from Iraq; an $800 gift certificate contest for anyone who collects signatures from 24 Junction City businesses.
