Sentence examples for earlier contest from inspiring English sources

Memories of that earlier contest were much on the minds of the bidders for Equity Office.

EADS, bidding with Northrop Grumman, won the earlier contest only to have government auditors block the award after Boeing filed a formal protest.

Under the licensing deal, Boeing will offer its version of AgustaWestland's AW101, which is similar to the helicopter that won the earlier contest.

Two years ago, in an earlier contest, another screenwriter complained that Ronald's relationship with a woman was too "claustrophobic," causing Mr. Croney to rewrite the script.

In those more bibulous days, I once had to arm wrestle an SNP MP on the floor of the whips' office, a rematch for an earlier contest he had demanded and lost.

In the earlier contest, Taylor was far from his best, averaging 100.08 with just a 40% success rate with doubles, but was fortunate that Dutchman Van der Voort struggled with a back injury.

As he has in some earlier contests, Mr. Paul has the biggest gender gap among the candidates.

As in the earlier contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, Mr. Paul was popular among younger voters.

The state's ethnic diversity contrasts sharply with the largely white electorate in earlier contests this year.

And more of these voters supported Mr. Gingrich than Mr. Romney today, a change from the earlier contests.

As a result, the first Republican presidential primary in the Tea Party era lacks the straightforward ideological cleavages of earlier contests.