Sentence examples for of contests for from inspiring English sources
Soccer, however many are on the field, is essentially an ongoing series of contests for control within a larger struggle.
Apart from those races, most of Tuesday's election in the city will consist of contests for various judgeships.
There's a competition (Carnival is a series of contests) for a song to be crowned "Road March" - usually soca, which is a mix of soul and calypso driven by a heavy beat.
An increase in sporadic attacks against Egypt's 10% Christian minority may also indicate a decline in the state's capacity to mediate social relations.In most cases, sectarian nastiness has been less a product of religious dogma than of contests for power or resources.
French's, owned by Reckitt Benckiser, is increasing its media spending by 40percentthis yearar, to about $10 million, as part of a marketing push that includes the introduction of a new bottle shape and the holding of contests for people to become the next Mustard Man mascots.
It also offers posters, neckties, T-shirts, CD-ROM's, jigsaw puzzles and -- in a tie-in with its graphic-design merchandise -- a series of contests for students who would like to try their hand at creating their own Escher-style tessellations.
Later, after meeting with Kazakhstan's foreign minister, Marat Tazhin, Ms. Rice said, "This is not some kind of contest for the affection of Kazakhstan between the countries of the region".
Having slid out of the playoffs, the Jets are now trying to win some sort of contest for whining about one another, with The Daily News reporting that several unidentified Jets want quarterback Mark Sanchez traded.
In his e-mail to Ms. Eller, Mr. Marsaglia also wrote, contritely, that he and his colleagues "would really like to have some kind of contest for a great label".
If there were some kind of contest for unbridled optimism, it would be hard to decide whether people who work in advertising or people who work in real estate would win.
Our gov't--having desperately sought up to the last minute to reinforce the flimsy democratic structure we prematurely foisted on the Vietnamese by assuring some sort of contest for the Presidency & by persuading either Minh or Ky or both to stay in--is now deeply embarrassed & finally disillusioned.
