Sentence examples for infamous contest from inspiring English sources

In the now infamous contest with Juan Manuel Marquez in 2009, Mayweather insisted the weight limit was set at 144lb, which was 9lb heavier than Marquez had ever weighed.

The game on TV was the infamous contest — the crime, Ryan called it — that effectively forced a settlement of the referees' lockout, after Seattle won on a last-second touchdown pass that the replacement officials should have ruled an interception or offensive pass interference.

In 2000, turnout was low, with a 55.3percentturnoutut by eligible voters helping to hand Bush the White House after the infamous contest in Florida was decided by the Supreme Court.

He told the UK Sun on Tuesday that he didn't understand why we were taking part in the infamous singing contest.

Telling fans that the cup dates back to 1473, she explained how it is a "logistical nightmare for the host nation" and laid out how the tournament works, also providing some details of infamous past contests.

Still, she said, finance clients are infamous for contesting credit-card charges ("almost like dining and dashing, but by guys making seven or eight figures").

Or two gunmen opening fire outside Pamela Geller's infamous Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas.

In the contest between Lord Thomson's infamous off-the-cuff about an ITV franchise being a licence to print money and the much repeated platitude that Britain has the best television in the world, smugness won.

China's first publicly acknowledged transsexual, she had sometimes been featured in state media, but it was as a judge on a TV dance contest that she became a star, infamous for the blunt comments she posts on Weibo.

But there's no hint of the ordeal as she stands in a conference room at the Rio chatting by the FTC's contest stall, "Zap Rachel" – named for the infamous robocaller associated with Cardholder Services.

He also said that "The Contest" was "one of the series' most infamous" episodes.