Sentence examples for contests as from inspiring English sources

The governing party seemed to be facing crucial losses in other contests, as well.

The Jets sometimes seem to make life unnecessarily complicated, trying to win popularity contests as well as football games.

But Alaska's consistent leanings in presidential contests, as well as Ms. Palin's partisan politics, belie a more shades-of-gray conservatism on the ground.

This rule holds for presidential contests as well as for whodunits: Romney is improbable, but his rivals are impossible, and so he will be the nominee.

The most important day for athletic contests, as well as religious ceremonies, was the fourth, the date of the full moon.

It recently announced a series of new online contests as well as ambitious plans to develop its own gaming "platforms" for the web and mobile devices.

Contests as close as these — not to mention Florida's electoral adventures in 2000 — have led to an impression that the margin between Democrats and Republicans is pretty narrow.

He won the marathon offshore Whitbread Round-the-World Race and the inshore closed-course America's Cup, a pair of contests as different as night and day.

But in contests as close as yesterday's, even the smallest of shifts in a different direction could change the result in a constituency.

Bix allows video submissions to compete in contests as well, but Ksolo and Singshot are for vocalists only.

"That's why I don't like the contests as much as filming because there are no rules in filming".