Sentence examples for proper contest from inspiring English sources

We're after a proper contest.

Mr Bertinotti wants a proper contest.

But in those constituencies where there was a proper contest, the turnout was significantly higher.

Both sides have got to want to scrummage and make a proper contest.

May has demanded a "proper contest" as polling suggests she is racing towards victory.

The first is that Labour will be damaged if Gordon Brown is not tested by a proper contest.

Like other businesses, teams want to vanquish their rivals but not to obliterate them, since without proper contests the sport's appeal wanes.

The lack of proper contests means that 15 of the past 17 Ashes series have been taken by the first team to win a Test.

By Anthony Armstrong The New Yorker, July 27 , 1929P. 14 I do think proper contests might be organized in the different spheres of hotel service.

The New Yorker, July 27 , 1929P. 14 I do think proper contests might be organized in the different spheres of hotel service.

And, still, their games against each other were proper contests, a four-pointer and a nine-pointer.