Sentence examples for set a contest from inspiring English sources

When Isner took the court Tuesday, he was best known for the record-setting match at Wimbledon last year in which he beat Nicolas Mahut, 70-68, in the fifth set, a contest that spanned three days.

"The more Googley thing to do is to set up a contest for getting the best mileage," says Google engineer Rolf Schreiber.

Labour's national executive committee will meet early next week to set a timetable for a contest to replace both Miliband and the deputy leader, Harriet Harman, who will quit that post after steering the party through the interim period.

It may set up a contest for playing time between Tiago and Deco.

Of course, no one wants to set up a contest for which is worse, smoking or obesity.

The Belfast bantamweight eased to a unanimous 30-27, 30-27, 29-28 win to set up a contest with Brian Gonzalez of Mexico.

Last year, he set up a contest called Tattoolizator where he would tattoo the highest bidding company's logo on his hand (Engadget scored pretty high).

The researchers set up a contest with prize money and bragging rights on the line for the stress variable, which they measured by asking players to rate their anxiety on a scale of 0 to 10 before their penalty shots.

We threw it open to all of the city's tech world and we set up a contest to see who could come up with ways to use that data creatively.

Whether you set up a contest to see who can accomplish something the fastest on a certain day, or if you have a competition to see who can generate the most revenue by the end of the month, any contest that has a reward, even if it's silly, will keep your employees motivated to produce solid work.

The tenant, Robert Wilson, who is sixty-seven, told Nordine that he'd set a court date to contest the eviction.