Sentence examples for the contender has from inspiring English sources

'I might have, I hope, a little easier time of it because I'm basically a character actress, and The Contender has now taken me into the central role.

Manfredo, runner-up in the first series of The Contender, has lost three of his 29 professional fights but Warren believes the 26-year-old will prove a tough opponent for the champion, who will be 34.

"The Contender" has a similar format to "Champ" (except that there are 16 contestants and the winner will get $1 million) but a better pedigree: Mark Burnett, the mind behind CBS's "Survivor" and NBC's "The Apprentice"; DreamWorks SKG; Sylvester Stallone, who once played a boxer; and Sugar Ray Leonard and George Foreman.

"The Contender" has a lot of thumping, high-minded things to say about the necessary boundary between the public and private lives of politicians, but the film itself plots this borderline with a haphazard confusion that may be its truest mirroring of the actual state of the union.

The inclusion of American novels among the contenders has not, this year, seemed to change the tone.

A petition calling for him to be axed from among the contenders has garnered nearly 50,000 signatures.

Chief among the contenders has to be Ogilvy, who confirmed his quality by outscoring his illustrious playing partners, Woods and Mickelson, for much of the day.

The Academy, which picks the contenders, has faced strong criticism.

Certainly the contenders have come and, mostly, gone.

As a result, the contenders have raced from coast to coast -- and in between.

The contenders have offered a few, though not many, details on what they would do differently.