Sentence examples for contests point from inspiring English sources

Those contests point to the power of incentive prizes to attract ideas and skills from unlikely sources.

By 2008, Karl Rove revealed in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that he and the President had been engaging in yearly reading contests (points for volume rather than style or taste), good-natured challenges where each man attempted to get through more than a book a week.

With Clinton's inevitability turned to dust and her losses in eleven straight contests pointing to the likely end of her campaign, the candidate and her staffers are busying themselves with ominous tasks to fend off the shock.

So it has been in the contest, point and counterpoint, charge and countercharge, tit for tat.

McEnroe served and volleyed as Borg stood stoic at the base line contesting points so complex and involved they felt like short stories.

The presenter, who died following a short battle with cancer, was a figure much beloved for his work on the likes of Children in Need, his breakfast show, and everyone's favourite vox-pop-based televisual opinion slinging contest Points of View.

The letter of concern directly contests this point: "Immunisations are performed on Christmas Island prior to departure.

It was hard to contest that point.

There is no contesting his point about such circuslike excesses.

Posted by Jaz • Enter the contest and point to just inside the left field foul pole.

(8) The Obama administration did not contest this point in its briefs.