Sentence examples for finalist from inspiring English sources

During a recent trip to South Africa, as a finalist in the Guardian International Development Journalism competition, I realised my disfigurement could have been a potential barrier when interviewing case studies in the townships; I had to make the interviewees feel comfortable looking at my face.

The third finalist from the 90-plus applicants was Social Cyclist, an app that allows users to share cycling routes and information with each other and with their local governments.

Rare then and rarer now, no westerner had glimpsed a live saola in the wild before Pulitzer Prize finalist and nature writer William deBuys and conservation biologist William Robichaud set off to search for it in the wilds of central Laos.

In Dublin, the British embassy hosted a reception to mark the visit, with a fashion show featuring Irish and British designers, followed by a concert featuring the boy band Westlife, the X Factor finalist Mary Byrne, who was born locally, and the 1996 Irish Eurovision song contest winner Eimear Quinn.

"For a striker like him, a champion in Spain, a Champions League finalist, a 25-year-old, we consider the price was very much in our favour".

"There have been 14 occasions on which neither FA Cup finalist has finished in the top half of the top tier of English league football.

Meanwhile, Lisa D'Amour was a Pulitzer finalist for Detroit: A Play, a black comedy set at a barbecue in an unnamed suburb at the beginning of the Great Recession.

Lucie Safarova, the defeated women's finalist in Paris, has climbed to a career-best No7 in the WTA rankings.

His 2001 book, "The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression", was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize and has been published in 24 languages.

And the Lib Dems do run the city council.Voters seem more concerned with the wild fortunes of Portsmouth's football club, indebted and relegated to the second tier yet a finalist in the FA Cup, than with politics.

The play was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize, marking a turning point in Mr Eno's career.