Sentence examples for contests appear from inspiring English sources

The rules for proxy contests appear to give an unfair financial advantage to company managers, so only the most well-financed dissident shareholders can afford to fight.

At first glance, the final polling averages on 2014 Senate contests appeared to show more error than they had in recent midterm elections in estimating the margins separating the candidates.

But conventional statistics make the contest appear closer than it was.

Train operators fear the revised rail franchise timetable announced in the wake of the west coast fiasco is already slipping as documents for the first contest appear likely to be delayed until autumn.

Although play will begin half an hour before the scheduled start, hopes of a meaningful contest appear over after two blank days.

The 14-times major winner's frosty relationship with this biennial contest appears to have thawed.

"A contest appears to be a useful way of synchronizing people's activities," Malone said.

In the evening, with so few votes in, the contest appeared to be highly competitive.

The 27,000-strong crowd, which had anticipated a hard-fought contest, appeared similarly dazed.

The most detailed report of that grand contest appeared in 1874 in Col. Daniel R. Hundley's diary.

The contest appears to be narrowing to a race between Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, a Democrat, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican.