Sentence examples for handful of contests from inspiring English sources

Only a handful of contests were viewed as competitive.

The race is one of a handful of contests that could tilt the balance of the Senate this November.

Mr. Obama has been campaigning extensively in Oregon, a state he hopes to win in Tuesday's primary, as the Democratic presidential nominating race ticks down to its last handful of contests.

Each of the 50 states as well as the District of Columbia and far-flung Pacific territories took turns to read out their delegate split, inducing huge cheers and the occasional jeers when the turn came to the handful of contests won by rivals Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and John Kasich.

The broadcaster intends to air the "vast majority" of the 48 Rugby World Cup matches live on its flagship ITV channel, with only a handful of contests among smaller rugby-playing nations expected to be aired on ITV4, according to sources.

One of a handful of contests pitting incumbent vs. incumbent this year, the Florida race, which will culminate on Tuesday, can be told in part through the contributions of those members who have taken the unusual step of endorsing one colleague over another in the primary: Ms. Adams has received several donations from fellow freshmen, and Mr. Mica from some more entrenched members like himself.

The vehicle was there to remind Mrs Palin's supporters (20,000 of them), that the presidential race is not the year's only contest.Beneath the furore of the presidential campaign are a handful of heated contests for governor.

They have classified a handful of presidential contests as "critical elections" producing extended dominance, including Abraham Lincoln's 1860 victory on the eve of the Civil War and Franklin D. Roosevelt's victory in 1932 amid the Great Depression.

Now, this pattern may not matter much this cycle, since these are national House race exit polls, and the biggest battles in 2014 are a handful of Senate contests.

It is mathematically all but certain that no matter what happens in the handful of remaining contests, Barack will end up in the first week in June having won the most elected delegates, the most votes and the most states.

Since then, a handful of teams and contests have cropped up across the globe, including some that have challenged the Oxford and Cambridge teams, which usually win.