Sentence examples for conventional contest from inspiring English sources

Rather than run some kind of conventional contest, "we wanted to do it in a nontraditional way," said Audrey Eden, executive vice president for experiential marketing at Deutsch L.A., the advertising agency for Volkswagen of America, which is known for the VW commercials with "Star Wars" themes that it produced for the last two Super Bowls.

But Dr. Greco, 61, a retired emergency-room physician, says she did not win a conventional beauty contest when she won the national pageant last month in Reno, Nev.

Ackman told Forbes on Monday that Pershing's proxy battle with Target is not a conventional proxy contest of "bad company, bad management and you want to throw everyone out".

But conventional statistics make the contest appear closer than it was.

In any straight contest between conventional forces, a relatively small American-led expeditionary force should be able to wreck the Iraqi military quite swiftly, perhaps in a few weeks.

Rather than taking on board the additional question of 'enhancement' as Savulescu and Kahane do, in order to retain focus, we will not contest the conventional ethico-medical standard that the best condition to provide for future children does not go beyond a 'normal' state of disease- and handicap-free existence.

Democratic journalists may find themselves eager to talk about the fascinating new research that contests the conventional wisdom about the effects of raising the minimum wage.

We also compare crowdsourcing contests with more conventional means of procurement.

Significantly they are produced in such a way that directly contests the authority of conventional forms of textual communication and representation in the industry towards embodied, emplaced sensory and affective accounts of how safety is performed and why it matters.

What was striking about the 10 finalists -- apart from the fact that all were white, and all but one male -- was how conventional their ambitions were, and how the contest sold careerism as a form of rebellion.

With the Greens darting in and out of various areas where the contest would otherwise seem too conventional... Is this not a healthy development, since it recognises a diversity of needs for different parts of the nation?