Sentence examples for stakes contest from inspiring English sources

Two years ago, another lottery venture, the "Golden Stakes" contest, was barred by the postal officials.

To an outsider, it's a high stakes contest between two top-ranked teams in the top 5.

But a special election to fill out a term in a reliably-conservative seat seems like exactly the kind of high profile, low stakes contest where it makes sense to put moral and theological principle ahead of party.

Group One races are the highest stakes contests in Europe, as certified by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities, and are subject to age and gender restrictions.

But the high-stakes contest can also motivate more petty forms of personal betrayal.

But the 19-year-old harbours no fear about breaking down during the high-stakes contest.

The other high-stakes contest going on in the sports universe involves the various conference basketball tournaments, which are not only producing N.C.A.A. tournament contestants, but providing a welcome distraction to the drone of conference realignment news.

Steven Roth's hopes of establishing a beachhead on the West Coast were dashed earlier this year when he lost the high-stakes contest to acquire Equity Office Properties and its nationwide portfolio of prime office buildings to the Blackstone Group, a private equity firm.

Indeed, the high-stakes contest for Boeing has stirred not only the pride of the competitor cities, it has also created a sideshow to the effort to find a suitable home for Boeing and wrest tax breaks, subsidies and other concessions out of the process.

But similar, if lower-stakes, contests have addressed problems in computer vision, medical-data analysis, and weather prediction.

There, personified, was a cure for the doldrums of spring training, an antidote to the dull spirit of work that predominates in this string of low-stakes contests.