Sentence examples for protracted contest from inspiring English sources

The protracted contest to decide who should lead the party has been good for Labour in many ways.

President Clinton has vowed to block the man Europe wants to head the International Monetary Fund, setting off a possibly protracted contest for control of the financial institution and most likely casting the United States in the role of kingmaker.

AFTER such a protracted contest, a coin toss seems a fitting way to end it.

Stephen Conroy, a former communications minister, warned that a protracted contest risked making Labor into a "laughingstock".

Mr. Bush also said the close race in Florida, and the protracted contest of the election results, showed the need for standardizing voting procedures.

He joined the newly formed Republican Party in 1855 and in 1856, after a bitter and protracted contest, was elected speaker of the House of Representatives on the 133rd ballot.

The strength of the victories by the Republican and Democratic frontrunners in the large, diverse state will add to the growing sense they are nominees-in-waiting, even if they have months of protracted contests ahead of them.

From the very beginning, his grimacing characters triggered protracted bidding contests.

But Ms. Hynes said she hoped the protracted nominating contest would end this week.

This approach would necessarily involve a protracted proxy contest and eventually an exchange offer.

Even among Tory MPs, there is a feeling that the protracted leadership contest is remote from anything that at the moment seems important.