Sentence examples for during the earlier contests from inspiring English sources
The campaign tried to hoard its cash during the earlier contests, in the hope that it would be able to overwhelm its exhausted rivals once they arrived here with their coffers depleted.
The early contests in Iowa and New Hampshire are scheduled for January 2004.
(The earliest contests are Iowa on Jan . 3 New Hampshire on Jan . 10and South Carolina on Jan . 21.
Most of the early contests involved slalom races, as in alpine skiing.
"The early contests were all about friendships and testing the limits of the sport," he said.
Then, too, the conventional news media only budgeted for the early contests.
Though Mr. Adelson first supported Newt Gingrich during the early nominating contests because of his strong support for Israel, he has since thrown his support behind Mr. Romney.
Conceding a few mistakes — "Look, they won, we lost, they did a better job," Mr. Stevens said — he argued that the Republican Party in general faces a problem with Hispanic voters, but that Mr. Romney was not hampered by his decision during the early nominating contests to tack to the right, advocating a process of "self-deportation" for illegal immigrants.
Mr. Romney's challenge is to appeal to those voters, whose growing numbers in important swing states could make the difference in November, while not seeming to shift from the immigration positions he took during the early nominating contests in a way that could open him to charges of flip-flopping and alienate his conservative base.
It also has the even greater advantage of being able to use the growing array of media tools that can reach global publics -- including the Chinese public -- in ways that were impossible during earlier contests such as the Cold War.
