Sentence examples for personal contests from inspiring English sources

But Congressional campaigns, especially in upstate New York, can be very personal contests, built on longstanding relationships and local perceptions.

This goes along with a proportional voting system that forces candidates of the same party to compete for votes, turning elections into intensely personal contests.

Solving is an escape to some, a personal contest to others.

The matter was complicated by Simon's personal contest with Gaston de Béarn, the leading rebel.

And no other sport except prize-fighting is so spectacularly a personal contest.

First of all, there is a personal contest for the attention and love of John McCain.

The Oscars battle will make for a ­fascinating personal contest, almost a movie in itself.

In a personal contest of senior guards, Jaraan Cornell, the Boilermakers' streaky shooting guard, rarely escaped the shadow of Mike Kelley.

Heath remains silent on the disarray in the E. E. C. The campaign is a personal contest between Heath and Wilson.

In what sounds like an increasingly personal contest with a fellow amateur theologian in his Afghan cave, this may have been deliberate.

People would recount their own harrowing tales of a family member, a dear friend, or even their personal contest with addiction.