Sentence examples for minor contest from inspiring English sources

The four-year-old had finished six lengths behind him when eighth at Royal Ascot and yesterday, on her first run for Aidan O'Brien, outclassed her rivals in a minor contest at Fairyhouse and heads for the Nunthorpe Stakes.

And one of his charges, Telescope, who missed the Derby after a disappointing training gallop, is now back in the reckoning for top contests later in the year after a thoroughly satisfactory comeback in a minor contest at Leicester.

The stakes are so high that the campaigns have descended on seemingly minor contests, and there is the chance that the nomination could be determined by Pennsylvania's dozens of unbound delegates or territories largely forgotten by politics, such as the US Virgin Islands.

Hague had won a minor debating contest on Yorkshire television, so he put his name forward as a possible speaker in a late-afternoon time slot.

You would make it a minor league contest, featuring players with mostly faint hopes of getting to the majors; they would absurdly play into the wee hours with no scouts in sight in April's irrelevant cold.

But they do offer a connection with the reader, and some provide happy surprises: my colleague Dan Barry recorded the audio version of his 2011 book "Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption and Baseball's Longest Game," lending a quiet dignity to a long-ago minor league contest between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings.

For instance, I see news of every minor surf contest all over Surfline's front page but where was Mike Stewart's return to the World Tour Top Ten last year on the pro bodyboarding circuit?

Both political parties are very supportive of the arts when they are in opposition because they can make minor political contests out of them.

Even though I had won a minor U.S. poetry contest, my own efforts were mostly being rejected, but Patrick admired the energy of my poems.

A lot of the newspaper headlines will be about the decision review system again and it is very frustrating and disappointing that in an Ashes Test we are talking about something that should only be a minor aspect of the contest.

The difficulties of showing up to court month after month to contest even minor criminal charges -- or the inability to afford bail -- often coerce people to accept plea agreements solely to resolve their case as quickly as possible.