Sentence examples for make the contest from inspiring English sources

But conventional statistics make the contest appear closer than it was.

Mr Smith has instead sought to make the contest about effectiveness and electability.

Robinson, rumoured to be an £8m transfer target for Arsenal, seemed determined to make the contest personal.

Both the parties will aim low in their mid-term campaigns, trying to make the contest a referendum on the awfulness of the other side.

Why, for instance, do the girls all wear monstrous curly hairpieces that make the contest look, as one parent notes, like "a Shirley Temple convention"?

The race is viewed as something of a bellwether, as Mr. Turner has tried to make the contest a referendum on President Obama.

Early primaries should be held in states where only Republicans are allowed to vote, which might make the contests less bruising, he said.

But it's still somewhat startling to hear a Republican who is up for reelection next year admit his party shouldn't make the contests about Republicans, as Texas Sen. John Cornyn did in a brief interview Thursday.

By not doing so, he made the contest seem more important than it otherwise would have.

But private polls have suggested a tightening of the race in the last two weeks, he said, making the contest "interesting".

The tireless Martin Paterson, Steven Thompson and, most clearly of all, Joey Gudjonsson and Robbie Blake should have made the contest safe.