Sentence examples for string of contests from inspiring English sources

But after losing a string of contests to Mr. Santorum, Mr. Romney was hardly greeted with warmth and affection here.

With a challenging string of contests in the next week, Mitt Romney is eyeing Illinois as the place to make a stand in his Republican presidential nomination race with Rick Santorum.

In February, Mr. Obama raised the $55 million without holding traditional fund-raising events, leaving him more time to campaign for the long string of contests throughout the month.

The Bush and Gore strategists said they could enjoy the luxury of looking ahead because of their candidates' coast-to-coast triumphs in a string of contests on Tuesday, the biggest primary day of the year.

A string of contests follows on April 26 in Pennsylvania and several Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states, where GOP voters tend to be less religious and conservative, which could also play to Trump's advantage.

The DPJ has won a string of local contests in recent weeks, with significantly increased turnouts.

Labour had lost a string of such contests; it had a highly inexperienced candidate; and yet, to general amazement, the party won Glenrothes comfortably.

Seen as the group most responsible for the government shutdown and facing increasingly vocal and robust challenges from pro-business lobbies such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Tea Party watched its candidates suffer losses in a string of primary contests.

Facing a string of competitive contests with Sanders, Clinton depicted the Vermont senator as favoring the gun lobby over crime victims, saying she would push for stronger background checks for gun buyers.

Each on an anti-war platform, Senators Robert Kennedy (D-NY) and Eugene McCarthy (D-MN) fought a string of primary contests that spring, with Kennedy with the edge.

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.