Sentence examples for give a contest from inspiring English sources

Among the new reality offerings is "Oprah's Big Give," a contest on ABC sponsored by Oprah Winfrey to see who can give away large sums of money to society's greatest benefit.

"If you want the game to thrive, you have to give people a contest that actually means something — and, for preference, at a time of year when furry animals have finally come out of hibernation".

"It is a system that allows the incumbent party to call the by-election at a time of their choosing and it doesn't give a free, open contest to anybody else".

But Grandage strips the play of naturalistic detail to give us a contest of character.

In a game billed as a Futility Bowl, something had to give in a contest that was not at all pretty.

Maybe in some of the countries where he has managed in the past, teams in the bottom half of the table do not even give you a contest.

When the government spent $56 million early this year to buy a new presidential plane, for instance, the columnist Claudio Humberto, a sort of Matt Drudge of Brazilian politics, sponsored a contest to give a tongue-in-cheek name to the aircraft.

London's property developers clearly don't give a shit about popularity contests.

While Frito-Lay will produce three of the flavors from its contest and give a $1 million prize to the creator of one of those flavors, Ms. Mukherjee said the company would also study other suggestions.

It now seems possible that her own weaknesses as a candidate may turn what could have been an electoral rout into a close contest, and give a very dark politics a chance at the White House.

He said the week-long contest would give a good indication of how the England team would do in London where he was confident of a podium place.