Sentence examples for list of challengers from inspiring English sources

Cat Zingano was supposed to offer Rousey her toughest challenge to date, with a 9-0 record and a similar list of challengers conquered.

A long list of challengers who have fallen seem to prove that point — Alta Vista, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, Cuil, Kosmix, SearchMe and Wikisearch, to name only a few.

But someday soon, Pacquiao will permanently trade boxing for politics, and if a fight against Mayweather again fails to materialize, the list of challengers seems thin, at best.

Seventh seed Ana Ivanovic led the list of challengers to fall at the first hurdle but there were also surprise defeats for Karolina Pliskova, Carla Suarez Navarro, Jelena Jankovic, Sloane Stephens and Svetlana Kuznetsova.

To qualify for the ballot, candidates need only to submit 65 valid signatures and pay a $3,500 filing fee, or submit 10,000 valid signatures, so the list of challengers could be long.

This year's list of challengers features two comedians that everyone knew would appear, Adam Riches and Nick Helm, two shortlist veterans in Josie Long and Andrew Maxwell, and two new additions, in Chris Ramsay and Aussie absurdist Sam Simmons.

The list of young challengers who have yet to win a major grows longer.

Zell Miller, a Democrat, is quitting the Senate, and no prominent party member has stepped forward to contend for the job against a growing list of Republican challengers.

David Haye has insisted that he will not add his name to the long list of heavyweight challengers from the past five years who have lost and then claimed that they had no idea the champion was so tall.

The Huntington supervisor, Frank P. Petrone, who after announcing his switch to the Democratic Party last month joined the short list of possible challengers to Mr. Gaffney, referred indirectly to Mr. Gaffney's management style.

JONATHAN P. HICKS (NYT) Correction: February 15 , 2006 Wednesday A report in the Metro Briefing column on Friday about the Queens Democratic Party's endorsement of Andrew M. Cuomo for state attorney general omitted the name of one candidate in a list of his challengers for the nomination.