Sentence examples for past contests from inspiring English sources

Grizzled advisers, veterans of many past contests, sit around the table.

The campaigns have put up posters, but fewer than in past contests.

It asserts that the traditional rules of engagement in a nomination race still apply, and that the empirical evidence from past contests is reasonably powerful.

The debate could have significant implications for next year's general election, in which GOP leaders had hoped to better perform with nonwhite voters than in past contests.

As in past contests, voters in Ohio appeared to view Mr. Romney as having the best chance of winning in a general election matchup against Mr. Obama in November, according to preliminary exit poll results.

As in past contests, a large number of Republicans who cast ballots Tuesday night said they viewed the candidate's ability to win against Mr. Obama to be their top issue.

Five out of six of the past contest winners have gone on to win the White House.

With expanded competition resources, teams also benefit from tangible support, including proposal-writing, budgeting and finance workshops, weekly office hours with past contest winners and detailed early-stage feedback from judges.

All of this has contributed to an intense campaign in which opposition parties — which now hold just 2 of 84 elected seats — are drawing bigger crowds to rallies, fielding more candidates and, in contrast to the past, contesting all but one constituency.

Decolonized culture does not simply seek to revitalize an idealized or purified past but rather is informed by a more contradictory disposition, in which voices of a collectivist past contest but also co-opt contemporary genres and values not to mention contemporary technologies to create Indigenous voices.

In past proxy contests, this consent has rarely been provided, particularly at a point in the contest when one party may view the universal proxy card as favoring the other party.