Sentence examples for popularity competition from inspiring English sources

Only Julia Roberts, nominated for August: Osage County, is posing some sort of popularity competition for Lawrence.

Levental may have found himself on the shortlist for Russia's Big Book prize with his first novel, Masha Regina, but he's not expecting to win a popularity competition any time soon.

"The RFU have got to stand up and be counted, it's not a popularity competition being at the RFU".

"With the X-Games it's a bit of a popularity competition - if your name fits or you're a bit movie star then you may be one of 20 to get an invite, but there are a lot of talented kids out there who the world don't know about.

They show democracy at a basic level, the push and shove of popularity competitions and ultimately the lengths to which people will go to win.

But Mr. Dalla's popularity spanned decades: only last month he participated in the San Remo Festival of Italian song, a popular competition.

However, the aspiring songstress believes she has the talent to go further and it was John and Edward who turned the competition into a "popularity contest".

Viewers critical to the program concluded that it was just another "popularity contest" rather than a singing competition.

Part of the competition functions like a popularity contest, with a vote carried out on social media.

He's not the surprising choice, but perhaps he's the most logical choice, since "Idol" has always been a popularity contest more than a talent competition.

If people were voting based on dance, then they would, but as we all know, at this point of the competition, it's just a popularity contest.