Sentence examples for first-ever competition from inspiring English sources

More than 334,000 votes were cast in the first-ever competition, open to anyone who registered in person at sites around the city.

Pressed by lawmakers angered by UC's performance as lab manager, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced in 2003 a first-ever competition for the lab contract (ScienceNOW, 30 April 2003).

It looked like a typical demo day for aspiring Silicon Valley tech startups, except it was a first-ever competition by the U.S. Department of Energy's Sunshot Initiative, a solar research and development program that aims to drive down the average wholesale price of solar electricity to $0.06 per kilowatt-hour by 2020.

Amanda won her first-ever competition on "Big Brother," and if fans thought she could be obnoxious when she lost, she proved herself an even worse winner.

However, the Olympics also bring back the sting of the United States Olympic Committee going to court back in 1982 to stop Dr. Tom Waddell and other organizers of the first ever competition for LGBT athletes from calling those games the "Gay Olympics".

The Xprize foundation has whittled its latest competition down from 10,000 sign ups to 147 teams in its first-ever "open" competition.

But these teams, semifinalists in the MIT Enterprise Forum Greece's first-ever startup competition, are eager to provide a more positive picture of Greece's future.

This will be the first-ever reality competition to expand to Snapchat, NBCUniversal notes.

The National Academies will hold its first-ever grants competition as part of a $40 million gift from the W. M. Keck Foundation.

"My recent move to Bangladesh was short but exciting as I managed to be part of the first-ever T20 competition in that country," he said.

The award-winning filmmaker will executive producer TNT's first-ever reality competition, "The Great Escape".