The contests push charities to use the Internet in new ways.
As a school debater he developed a tactic of intimidating opponents by arriving at contests pushing a trolley laden with files (it is claimed that most of the files were filled with blank notecards).
But their contest pushed at least two local marriages several red states nearer Reno.
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The Black Lives Matter movement, kickstarted by the events in Ferguson, has in recent weeks made a sharp impact on the Democratic party's 2016 presidential primary contest, pushing Hillary Clinton and senator Bernie Sanders to explicitly support reforms intended to rid law enforcement of institutional racism.
A stronger showing in the 2013 contest, however, pushed the seat total up to 11.
The hope is that, like the self-driving car competition in DARPA's Grand Challenge, the Robot Art Contest will push scientists, hobbyists, and technologists to address and possibly overcome some of the difficult problems of AI in relation to creativity, along with addressing more general ones like dexterity and real world interaction.
He had high hopes that David Cameron, whom he backed in the 2005 Tory leadership contest, would push through some of their proposed reforms - such as open primaries, where all voters in a constituency get to choose party candidates, and giving voters the power to recall their MP if they are doing a bad job.
"It was a good contest and we pushed them all the way.
It was a moment that encapsulated the contest - Spain pushed for a winner, desperate to avoid penalties but Fabregas ensured they need not have worried.
