Sentence examples for contests up from inspiring English sources

By moving their nominating contests up, all the states holding January contests - except for Iowa, which holds a nonbinding caucus - will lose half of their delegates, officials said.

The LDP won 30% of the vote for proportionally-elected seats (compared with 25% in 1998) and 35% in the district contests (up from 31%).

Already, Iowa and New Hampshire are likely to move their contests up and nearly two dozen other states have set their contests for Feb. 5. Karen Thurman, the Democratic chairwoman in Florida, said she intended to go ahead with the state's primary on Jan . 29

The center has two other contests up its sleeve, to be announced at a later date.

UPDATE 5 p.m.: Florida has decided to hold its Republican primary on Jan . 31 next year ignoring party rules that require later voting and likely pushing a string of other states to move their contests up.

Mr. Mack's checkered past made things potentially even more interesting, and many political wiseguys expected Florida's to be one of the country's most fascinating Senate contests, up there with Scott Brown versus Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts, George Allen versus Tim Kaine in Virginia and Claire McCaskill versus Todd Akin in Missouri.

About one million people from 44 parties were contesting up to 50,000 seats in the national, provincial and local legislatures.

Interest in the race snowballed in recent weeks and a number of high-profile mainland businessmen decided to travel to Taiwan to see the contest up close.

Warrington Wolves assistant coach Willie Poching said: "It was an even contest up until half-time.

Even allowing for the notoriously poor contests served up by the sisters it is an insult.

He cited contests shaping up in Brookhaven, Huntington and Smithtown as well as Islip.