Sentence examples for larger contest from inspiring English sources

She returns home from graduate architectural studies to compete in a championship match and finds a larger contest looming: The family's beloved, now crumbling carriage house is slated for demolition by a rancorous neighborhood association.

And even though his remarks seemed to be less about the Senate race than about the larger contest between Republicans and Democrats, he had nothing but praise for his wife, the candidate at the center of yesterday's fund-raiser.

The tribe that wins an "immunity challenge" temporarily staves off elimination from the larger contest, while the losing tribe attends a "tribal council" with the show's host at the end of each episode to oust one of its members from the show through a secret vote.

The U.S. and China used to joust mainly over specific issues — human rights, hacking, the South China Sea — but, today, they are engaged in a larger contest to shape the world order "by having their values and policies accepted on the global stage," as Robert Daly, the director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson Center, recently wrote.

Speaking to supporters in Laramie, Wyo., Sanders said the win would give him momentum to carry on toward larger contests later this month.

Smaller contests may leave the decision up to the judges, relying on them to interpret the contest's rules, but many larger contests will have set criteria they want their judges to abide by.

How do they teach the reasoned discussion that is crucial to the health of democracy, while students — and the public at large — contest the very idea, and even see dialogue as "violence"?

Men are going, therefore, ipso not-a-facto, it's women engineering their ouster, not taking into account that it could be Bulbous winning a whose-is-larger contest, which short men like Mr. Baggins spend their lives engaging in.

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And it has presented the Obama administration with a fresh example of Iran's apparent transfer of modern missiles from China to insurgents in the larger regional contest between Sunni-led and Shiite-led states, in which the American military has often been entwined.

Stephen Colbert's super PAC-enabled presidential "exploration" -- in which the host plans on taking credit for any and all votes cast for Herman Cain -- won't actually have much effect on the larger GOP contest.