Rhode Island is hardly the highest profile contest but is wonderfully intriguing, certainly unique and has both wit and charm to it.
The real danger will be when Thomas is tasked with her first controversial call in a high-profile contest.
His bid for a sixth term is likely to be the most high-profile contest of 2014.
It was a high-profile contest that brought together a number of political clubs and labor unions — most notably the Transport Workers Union — and many politicians, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, to work against the organization.
And after a second defeat in a high-profile contest — he lost to James E. McGreevey in the 1997 primary for governor — it seemed unlikely that the state party apparatus would support him again.
Mr. Lazio's campaign manager, Bill Dal Col, disputed Mrs. Clinton's analysis, asserting that developments in the presidential race would have no bearing on the high-profile contest between Mr. Lazio and Mrs. Clinton.
Probably the most obvious miscarriage of justice in a high-profile contest recently was Pacquiao's points loss to Timothy Bradley in June, the 33-year-old's first official setback in eight years.
In the high-profile contest between former Gov. Jim Florio and Jon S. Corzine, Quinnipiac is the only independent pollster measuring voter opinions, and its conclusions are causing a stir in political circles.
The dramatic expansion of the Yorkshire event after a low-key beginning last year means that British roads appear to be hosting an informal contest to stage the richest and most high-profile contest on the women's calendar.
Windsor spent a total of $604,000 in his unsuccessful bid to recapture his seat of New England in a high-profile contest against the deputy prime minister, Barnaby Joyce.
Not surprisingly, the high-profile contest for United States Senate in New York is being felt in New Jersey, with Representative Rick A. Lazio, the Republican running against Hillary Rodham Clinton, having raised nearly a million in New Jersey so far.
