Sentence examples for serious contestant from inspiring English sources

If Microsoft wants to be a serious contestant in the tablet market, analysts believe it needs to make it easy for the public to walk into a store to play around with a Surface.

The extra funding should give Conductor some more runway to make its services stand out of the crop, and with an experienced management team, which includes former executives from ContextWeb, Apple, Yahoo! and DoubleClick, we consider the company to be a serious contestant in the space.

Five look like serious contestants, and Mr Kerry was supposed to be the favourite.

So the only two serious contestants for the championship are as good as level once again.

But it has some serious contestants in China.

Up to some years ago this was all highly speculative, today a few serious contestants are emerging and worth following up.

Constitutional obstacles have made it hard for a serious Islamist contestant (for instance, an independent backed by the Muslim Brotherhood) to stand.

Backstage on the "Untucked" aftershow, Aguilera — a longtime supporter of the LGBTQ community (her 2002 video for "Beautiful" earned a GLAAD Media Award for its positive portrayals of gay and transgender people) — got serious with the contestants, offering them some sage advice about how to pursue their careers as they welcomed her to the "Drag Race family".

This spirited town is also renowned for the tradition of water jousting – a striking spectacle and a serious sport in which contestants attempt to knock each other off long platforms extending from boats.

Most contestants are serious hobbyists who compete regularly, but I was surprised to find that there is also a novice division, in which newbies step in behind a team of three huge horses and try to plow the straightest furrow.

Ms. Chung's program, which was built around interviews with personalities who sometimes were involved in less-than-serious events, like contestants from "American Idol," was criticized in some quarters of the network for being out of step with the new approach.