The lineup this year is stacked with past winners (Michael Haneke, Ken Loach, Abbas Kiarostami) and frequent contenders (Alain Resnais, David Cronenberg, Hong Sang-soo).
Puerto Rico has competed in the Olympic Games since 1948, and its boxers are frequent contenders for medals.
The Pan American Games (involving South, Central, and North America) added volleyball in 1955, and Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Cuba, and the United States are frequent contenders for top honours.
The Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy and Cal State Fullerton have been frequent contenders over the years in the Kennedy Center Festival's production categories.
With a combined nine national championships in men's basketball, both teams have been frequent contenders for the national championship for the past thirty years.
It was possible only because Mr. Clooney, according to people briefed on the film's finances but speaking anonymously to avoid conflict with the star or Paramount, took an initial fee that was roughly a tenth of the $20 million that Leonardo DiCaprio, a frequent Oscar contender, has received in the past.
That was a shot ahead of six others: two-time U.S. Open champion Retief Goosen of South Africa; 28-year-old British Open first-timer Robert Streb of Chickasha, Okla.; Scotland's own '99 British winner Paul Lawrie, who like Goosen is 46; former Masters champion Zach Johnson; frequent tour contender Jason Day, and England's Danny Willett, who has missed the cut two of his three..
Today's teenagers might be surprised that Notre Dame was once a frequent national championship contender, or that Syracuse once played in a B.C.S. game.
As news about the "Access Hollywood" tape breaks, Mike Pence is in Toledo, Ohio, eating a chili dog with his daughter at Tony Packo's Café — a frequent stop for Republican presidential contenders and their running mates.
Frequent civil war between Parthian contenders to the throne proved more dangerous to the Empire's stability than foreign invasion, and Parthian power evaporated when Ardashir I, ruler of Estakhr in Fars, revolted against the Arsacids and killed their last ruler, Artabanus IV, in 224 AD.
