Not a word of them would be heard in some contrived contest to bring about a quick change of leader during the run-up to an election.
Solving is an escape to some, a personal contest to others.
It often seems as if Justified's writing room is running some kind of contest to see who can write the most like Elmore Leonard, but if there's a winner here, it's the viewer.
It's the winner of some Michelle Obama-headesignsign contest to help folks figure out how to best fight childhood obesity.
Newspapers sympathetic to the Conservatives will join others that just want to inject some excitement into the contest to paint a picture of an election in which almost anything can happen.
Some expected the Republican contest to go all the way to the convention because Romney was, and is, supposedly a weak nominee, one who lacks support from the conservative base of the Republican party.
It was the plight of the victims that prompted a Norwegian theatre and film director, Morten Traavik, to come up with the challenging - some would say tasteless - contest to spotlight the ongoing tragedy.
You often don't know for sure when your favorite player will have a match, whether he'll get upset or injured, whether rain will postpone a contest to some later time or date.
The Johnstown man pleaded guilty in December to some counts and no contest to others.
Some kind of weird contest to see who can inflict the most pain on the American people.
