Sentence examples for notable contest from inspiring English sources

BEHIND THE NEWS The most notable contest was the Republican race for governor in Florida, where Rick Scott, above, a wealthy former health care executive, defeated Attorney General Bill McCollum by pressing him on immigration and jobs -- and by spending more than $50 million on the race, most of it his own money and much of it on TV, a record for a primary there.

In one of the more notable Chicago Public League contests of the year, Okafor led Young over Orr High School with 24 points, 14 rebounds, and 3 blocks on January 15 when the teams were ranked 3rd and 4th in the city by the Chicago Tribune.

Most notable was the contest in Ohio, where Romney and Rick Santorum were in a virtual tie leading up to the primary.

In Indiana, the closeness of the contest is notable perhaps most of all because other top races seem not to be.

NEW ORLEANS Kansasas won the "other game" Saturday, the second N.C.A.A. tournament national semifinal, a contest most notable on the surface for what it lacked: even one team from the Bluegrass State.

The contest is notable not only for the energy of the seven-way race, but also for the diverse West Indian roots of the candidates and the occasional invoking of nationalistic pride as a campaign force.

Argentina's victory over West Germany in 1986 was a decent contest, although notable more as the apotheosis of the cult of Maradona than for the brilliance of the football.

Indeed, the Johnson-Goldwater contest was notable in two important respects related to race: it featured the first appearance in almost a century of racial animus as a central dimension of partisan conflict in a presidential election, and it was the last time a Democrat received a majority of the white vote.

The meeting, held at an unfinished store in Waukesha, Wis., was the end of one of the most notable and expensive boardroom contests in recent memory.

It seems doubtful that Benazir Bhutto will be this contest's last notable victim.

One notable example was the final contest of a three-game series between all-star teams from Brooklyn and New York City, held on September 10 , 1858 in Long Island.