Sentence examples for join the pageant from inspiring English sources

Anastasia Lin, who emigrated to Canada with her mother from her native Hunan Province 12 years ago, broke down in tears as she described the refusal by Chinese authorities to let her enter the country and join the pageant at a beach resort on Hainan Island in the South China Sea.

Not one to be beat, she decides she must now join the pageant competition, and win at all costs.

So we have two choices -- join the pageant of praise and celebration for our grand success in Iraq or soberly admit our failings and prepare to endure the bed of nails we have made for ourselves.

Ms Osorio said she joined the pageant to make a serious point - about the Kalayaan Islands, where her father is an elected member of the municipal council.

One day she wants to be queen of the pageant, the next she wants to join the Happy Endings cult and commit suicide.

Although Chopra at one time aspired to study engineering or psychiatry, she accepted offers to join the Indian film industry, which came as a result of her pageant wins, making her acting debut in the Tamil film Thamizhan in 2002.

After that, they'll be taken down and replaced by others: the Abu Ghraib photographs have joined the vast, passing pageant of American cultural experience.

David Cameron met scouts and girl guides at the Downing Street jubilee party before joining the Queen at the pageant.

Ms. Taylor was to play a beauty pageant winner who joined the bus driver on his journey, and was to make her singing debut in the picture.

Unlike the characters based on famous Filipinos -- Imelda Marcos, Senator Aquino, the action-star-turned-president Joseph Estrada and a 1970's beauty-pageant winner who joined the rebel army -- Rio is very much an autobiographical figure.

She had previously garnered first runner-up at her school's Mister and Miss UE pageant, and said she joined the Binibining Pilipinas competition to gain "experiences, new friends and opportunities".