While I'm not in love with Android, I know a contender when I see one.
Mr. Minahan said he was particularly pleased with the performance of the actress who played the mother of a teenage contender, a woman who knows a thing or two about cameras and invasions of privacy, Donna Hanover, the estranged wife of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani of New York.
"They recognise he is now a serious contender and know a fight with him could make them serious money, especially as we have a near guarantee from Sky that the fight will be shown on pay-per view.
He wanted to help his team, which was flailing against the Flyers, an opponent the Islanders already knew would be a contender in the Atlantic Division.
It was hard to bear, especially when the winning manuscript came from the hand of someone you didn't like or, worse, from a boy who wasn't even known to be a contender — though this had happened just once in my years of waiting in the wings, when an apparent philistine named Hurst won an audience with Edmund Wilson for a series of satirical odes in Latin.
As anybody who has grappled with "Ulysses" knows, the ultimate contender, conniver, and man for every occasion is Joyce himself.
Portugal joined the European Community in 1986 and held a $2 billion international fair in 1998 -- an event that Lisbon used to refurbish historic buildings, build the 10-mile-long Vasco da Gama Bridge over the Tagus River, overhaul the riverfront area and generally let the world know that it was a contender.
"I don't know if I can be a contender again.
Having been a judge as well as a contender, I know about the vast burden of reading, the chancy and nervous nature of the process, and how much depends on the dynamics of the final meeting.
Heaven knows there are contenders for the title, from garish love hotels to concrete-smothered shorelines.
