Sentence examples for rival pageant from inspiring English sources

Saying that Miss France had been irreparably tainted, she quit the contest and started a rival pageant series, a more dignified alternative, she says.

Some Afro-Colombian leaders see it as a poor imitation of the rival pageant, while reinforcing standards in which women are judged almost solely on their appearance.

And it is, especially compared to rival pageants like Miss Universe, which run its qualifiers out in suburban shopping centers.

And it is, especially compared to rival pageants like Miss Universe, which run their qualifiers out in suburban shopping centres.

In later books, Alice seeks guidance from her three closest friends: prudish Elizabeth, focussed Gwen, and wild Pamela, her one-time pageant rival.

Sybil McLean's face is pressed between two beauty pageant rivals.

A9 Rival Queens Head to Pageant Two beauty queens headed for the Miss America competition after a federal judge refused to immediately decide which one is the real Miss North Carolina.

Meanwhile, Boris is outraged at being recast as Judah in a Hanukkah pageant and even more so that his old rival Schlomo will be playing the Greek king.

The contestants say their difficulties collecting their money surprise them, given that the Miss America system promotes itself as a scholarship pageant rather than a beauty pageant, unlike its main rival, the Miss USA contest.

My cousin, whose 5-year-old daughter is "all in," as she puts it (pageants and competitions and makeup application that could rival a professional's), lights up when she talks about watching her child perform.

It has raised the curtain on a complex pageant of violence and fear and threats and retaliations among rival gangs and old friends.