Sentence examples for contests to take from inspiring English sources

In painted buntings Passerina ciris, males even engage in aggressive contests to take over the best territories from their previous-year owners (Lanyon and Thompson 1986).

Newmont Mining, which is based in Denver, appeared set today to win the contest to take over Normandy Mining of Australia with a bid of $2.2 billion.

But for Mr. Peck, who founded Cyberian Outpost in 1995, the contest to take over the company must surely contain a degree of disappointment.

The game between the host Oilers and the Montreal Canadiens will be the first regular-season N.H.L. contest to take place outdoors.

If Best Buy's directors reject the bid anyway, he would have to wait only until Jan . 1to take the more drastic step of running a proxy contest to take control of the board.

The new leader will have to be given time to prove themselves to the electorate in time for the election, so many commentators expect the contest to take place in 2019.

Each time I announce my annual "win-a-trip contest," to take a university student with me on a reporting trip to the developing world, I get indignant letters.

"I know!" countless hacks around the country are telling themselves right now, "I'll finally finish that thing I've been working on as soon as I win a contest to take a 47-hour train ride".

A big part of the Valentine's Day drum-beating by the Macy's department store chain is a contest to take place on Twitter that will seek what the retailer calls the "sweetest Tweets".

The company's lawyer called to say that two hedge funds had secretly acquired the equivalent of a 21percentt stake in CNet and planned to mount a proxy contest to take over the board.

In another contest to take on a longtime Republican senator, Lorraine Coyle Koppell, a lawyer who is the wife of a former state attorney general, beat Michael R. Benedetto, an elementary school teacher who is a Bronx Democratic district leader.