Sentence examples for speaker contest from inspiring English sources

Democrats said today that he telephoned Mr. McGreevey to withdraw from the speaker contest.

6.08pm: If you're angry with some of the media coverage of the Speaker contest, read what Hopi Sen says on his blog.

But also, during the gaps between sessions, and over the lunch and coffee breaks, our own Evelyn Rusli will be hosting a series of exclusive backstage interviews with judges, speakers, panelists and contest participants.

Mr. Van Bramer said that he had not pledged his vote in the contest for speaker, and that he had also been endorsed by another Manhattan speaker hopeful, Philip Reed.

Nowhere was that more evident than in the contest for speaker of the House.

The contest for Speaker looked to be close-run, with Margaret Beckett and John Bercow the favourites.

But the opposition's victory in the contest for speaker may cool things down.

He was standing against the speaker, John Bercow, in a contest where none of the main parties even put up candidates.

Today's caucus meeting, one of the few in recent memory, is playing out against the backdrop of the contest for speaker.

The following year, there was a three-way contest for speaker between Letcher, Helm, and James Turner Morehead.

In an alternate accounting, however, McCarthy is reeling from telling Fox News that the Benghazi Committee was a success because it damaged former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's poll numbers, earning a rebuke from that committee's chairman, Trey Gowdy (R-S.C ., and leaving enough blood in the wateR-S.C .ep Representandve Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) in the contest for speaker.