Sentence examples for public contests from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

Britain has had a lame-duck prime ministership made worse so far by the absence of either a date for Tony Blair's departure or a public contest to succeed him.The question of when Mr Blair will go has obsessed politicians and journalists since before the 2005 election, when the prime minister announced, unwisely it now seems, that he would not fight another election.

His research grew out of a public contest last year sponsored by the Secure Digital Music Initiative, a coalition of music, telecommunications and consumer electronics companies, which offered a $10,000 prize to anyone who could successfully remove a digital "watermark" from a musical recording.