Sentence examples for lead the contest from inspiring English sources

It might lead the contest to drag on a little longer than if Mr. Romney carried both — Illinois is only a week away, and the news media usually look for excuses to string along the race.

Cork didn't lead the contest from the sixth until the 61st minute when Horgan chipped over a free.

Two of the finalists were students of the percussionist Johnny Almendra, who both led the contest's house band and served on the tape-screening committee.

Mark McGhee's Motherwell led the contest for over an hour and were on course to move within a point of Dundee with first-half goals from Chris Cadden, thanks to Marvin Johnson's assist, and Stephen Pearson superb solo effort.

She led the contest from the start and never faced much of a challenge from her bickering centre-right opponents.

NL led the contest initiative at the Pistoia Alliance and reviewed the manuscript before submission.

Including those races, the HuffPost Pollster Senate Outlook page shows that incumbent senators and candidates who currently lead the 2012 contests would combine to give the Democrats 50 Senate seats and the Republicans 43 seats, with 51 needed for an outright majority.

Eccles leads the vaulting contest with one day of competition remaining.

Two new Labour MPs have urged the parliamentary party to ensure that the nomination process does not lead to the contest being narrowed to two candidates, likely to be Burnham and the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper.

The Siciliano (penne pasta with sausage, broccoli, red peppers, mushrooms, leeks, olives, sun-dried tomatoes and either chicken or shrimp) leads the popularity contest.

Kezia Dugdale wins the most challenging job in UK politics: at 33 she wins the Leadership of the Scottish Labour Party The MSP for Edinburgh and Lothian, who previously held the deputy post, had led the leadership contest after being endorsed by the party's senior figures, including Ian Murray, the party's only remaining Scottish MP.