Sentence examples for intimate contest from inspiring English sources

American Economic Review, No.1, 1999"The intimate contest for self-command" by Thomas Schelling.

Translated into the realm of personal saving, this is precisely the quirk in our nature that Messrs Thaler and Benartzi exploit when they ask people to save more not today, but tomorrow.This quirk sets up an "intimate contest for self-command", as Thomas Schelling, a winner of last year's Nobel prize for economics, puts it.

Resolutions founder, because the self who decides to quit drinking or start a diet in the new year is not the self who must act on that resolution when the day arrives.Mr Schelling's own intimate contest is with smoking; he is torn between a self who craves nicotine and a self who wants to be free of it.

On Thursday, August 16 at 9 p.m. ET, The CW gets into the game with "The Next," a more intimate contest that sees the celebrity mentors -- Joe Jonas, Gloria Estefan, Nelly and John Rich -- moving into their chosen contestant's life for 72 hours in order to groom them for a shot at stardom.

The more crowded Republican field was becoming more raucous, the more intimate Democratic contest growing a bit testier.

But it seems more likely that the map, and the culture war that we believed produced it, was always just a cover for a more intimate political contest: not rural places versus cosmopolitan ones but white men against everyone else.

On Friday night, he gave a group of 1,500 invited guests and contest winners an intimate preview of this year's show when he played the Apollo Theater in Harlem to celebrate Sirius XM's 10th anniversary.

As the campaign accelerated after the first voting contests, Michelle Obama went from headlining intimate campaign events to enormous ones.

If a portrait is a contest, it is also a collaboration, intimate though unequal, and an overbearing artist like Cameron probably achieves the best results with a sitter who exerts some inner resistance.

Monday's display was more savage than a ratings contest or a booking war; at times it looked as intimate and creepily intrusive as the elimination rounds of a particularly cutthroat reality show.

We often feature work from the mix of established and amateaur artists who submit stunning vistas and intimate portraits from around the globe to the National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year contest.