Sentence examples for formal contests from inspiring English sources

A semiautomatic, open-bore, 12-gauge shotgun is the usual weapon, although in less formal contests other kinds of guns may be used.

*The state courts, which will deal with the formal contests -- as opposed to the protests of the past two and a half weeks -- that are permitted under Florida law once election results have been certified.

In today's more formal contests crashes are much more unusual.

But the lawyers said today that Miami-Dade would not be their only formal contest to the election next week.

A formal contest to the final count, beginning after the certification of the vote next week, seems inevitable.

All three play in each showcase concert so if the audience wants to make comparisons, it may, but there is no formal contest.

That meant the Democratic team had to begin the rather grim legal process of mounting a formal contest to the election at precisely the moment when Gov. George W. Bush was likely to claim victory.

By filing a formal contest, the Gore campaign will ask a state court judge in Tallahassee to invalidate the results of canvassing officials and supervise a recount of the ballots cast in Miami-Dade County.

But they will be at the center of the Gore campaign's legal challenges under Florida law, which allows a loser to file a formal contest of election results once they are certified.

Jonathan R. Siegel, a law professor at George Washington University Law School, said Florida law gave the courts more power in a formal contest of an election than in the kinds of protest proceedings that have been lodged so far.

A formal contest of the election, which would require 10 days for the other side to respond, and at least a week at trial, could last until dangerously close to that date, a fact much in evidence among Supreme Court justices on Monday as they weighed whether to let manual recounts continue even for a few more days.