Sentence examples for for the first contest from inspiring English sources
Train operators fear the revised rail franchise timetable announced in the wake of the west coast fiasco is already slipping as documents for the first contest appear likely to be delayed until autumn.
After the inaugural race, organizers improved the marking of the trail for the first contest held in the Whitehorse Fairbanks direction.
That meant even less time to prepare for the first contests.
Christian evangelicals make up an estimated 50% of the more than 100,000 voters expected to turn out for the caucuses, the first contest in the 2012 Republican presidential nomination process.
On Friday, bowing to privacy concerns, Netflix said it was shelving its plans for a sequel to the first contest.
The first contest - for journalism in four different categories, each of them for 10,000 euros - is underway from July 1.
The eleven-year-old judges of the Flame contest have already determined the science question for the second contest to be offered by Alda and the Center for Communicating Science.
And in 1875, Harvard persuaded Yale to incorporate much of its game into the rules for the first football contest between the two schools.
And on April 29, she will present awards at a ceremony for the first poetry contest sponsored by the Nassau County Poet Laureate Society, for which she was the judge.
But as Iowa Republicans prepare for the first caucus contest of the nominating season, Mr. Perry remains stubbornly mired in the second tier of candidates, fighting for the allegiance of conservative caucus-goers who remain skeptical of Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and Representative Ron Paul, the two men who lead many recent polls show in Iowa.
But as Iowa Republicans prepare for the first caucus contest of the primary season, Mr. Perry remains stubbornly mired in the second tier of candidates, fighting for the allegiance of conservative caucusgoers who remain skeptical of Mr. Romney and Mr. Paul, who lead in recent polls.
