Sentence examples for direct contest for from inspiring English sources

By May 2008 Tymoshenko was engaged in a direct contest for power with President Yushchenko.

While the party already has 23 parliamentarians, all of entered via the party list under Hungary's part-proportional representation system; this is the first time a candidate has ever won a direct contest for a constituency.

Direct contest for food is reflected by a high rate of agonistic inter-sexual interactions.

At this stage I do see it as a direct contest between me and Nicole for the team leader position because of the nature of the course.

Others wanted a direct contest.

The runoff round saw Yanukovich and Yushchenko in a direct contest.

The surprise, and uncertainty about Mr. Barak's motives, were all the greater for the fact that it was only 15 months ago that he won a landslide victory in Israel's first direct election contest for the post of prime minister.

Competition for mates can occur through a variety of direct contests, or indirectly through passively or actively attracting members of the opposite sex.

The reason for this is most likely that females feed more on dispersed and less defendable food sources during such periods (Kinnaird and O'Brien 2000) and thus engage in fewer direct contests.

"It was a directing contest".

Whenever the alpha male position may not guarantee a share of paternity large enough to compensate the risks of injuries or expulsion from the group received through direct challenges for reaching this position, male male contest for dominance can be expected to be reduced (van Noordwijk and van Schaik 2004).