Sentence examples for straightforward contest from inspiring English sources

To her, history was a straightforward contest between good and evil.

Executives privately agreed with Mr. Jaffe that he produced the program as a relatively straightforward contest, without much dramatic flair.

If kendo were a straightforward contest like table tennis or archery, making it conform to International Olympic Committee standards would not be difficult.

But what once might have been a straightforward contest between two candidates with deep Democratic roots has been complicated by the presence of Deborah Rose, an administrator at the College of Staten Island.

A straightforward contest to become the Oxford professor of poetry between Geoffrey Hill and the neurologist Sean Haldane has become complicated by the late appearance (via Facebook) of a performance poet, Steve Larkin, who has racked up close to 300 supporters via social networking.

It's not a straightforward popularity contest.

One of the most straightforward selection contests, a head-to-head in the women's 800m, was muddied when Jenny Meadows withdrew on the morning of the semi-finals.

From the user perspective, a Wildfire sweepstakes that's being run on Twitter is very straightforward: clicking a contest link will take you to a basic sweepstakes form, which includes a pre-populated Tweet that will alert your followers that you've just signed up for the contest.

Rules for the contest were straightforward: From 9 a.m., sand sculptures of any subject or theme could be made of natural materials native to Amagansett beaches.

The US presidential election, in spite of some uncertainties about Mr Romney's real position on many issues, is a straightforward and dramatic electoral contest.

This is a straightforward striker vs. grappler contest.