Sentence examples for popularity competitions from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

She said, however, that duo-piano performance has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity through competitions and new arrangements that are more playable.

While the 1998 study used a "narrow interpretation" that limited sporting purposes solely to hunting and organized, competitive target shooting, Turk suggests this should be changed in light of the surge of interest in such of weapons since the federal assault-weapon ban expired in 2004 and given the growing popularity of competitions testing tactical abilities.