Sentence examples for public contest from inspiring English sources

That's a public contest that, actually, democracy's pretty good for.

At a staff meeting in the summer of 2006, Hastings suggested a radical idea: Why not have a public contest?

They are about the public contest of image and show, about celebration and denigration — and about New York.

On Tuesday, it named the winners of its first Robocall Challenge, a public contest to design a system to stop unsolicited marketing calls from reaching an individual's phone.

A 60-year-old retired machinist from Pocatello, Idaho, won the American Alpine racer Lindsey Vonn's public contest to design the helmet she will wear at the Vancouver Games.

"The immigration issue is too difficult to deal with in a public contest," he said, speaking on a panel on the Republican Party and Latino voters sponsored by National Journal, Univision News and ABC News.

But the example does show that there are good reasons why most public contests control the options on offer, and institute a bar to entry.

Entertaining as these public contests may be, their main point is to advertise online gambling, a business that Global Betting and Gaming Consultants, a research firm, reckons will amass worldwide revenues of $24 billion in 2012, up from $15 billion in 2006.

Here's a way: Commit America to big, gaudy, public contests in space travel and energy.

All of the previous rovers had been named by schoolchildren in public contests, so when an online contest to name the Mars Science Laboratory was announced, I was very excited.

Florida has long struggled to take the lead in the State Most Hostile To Public Education contest, with North Carolina, Wisconsin and Nevada giving some real competition.