Sentence examples for the lost contest from inspiring English sources

Mr. Romney's trip west also spotlights what is the lost contest of this early stretch of presidential politicking, the Nevada Republican caucus, also on Saturday.

But wealth has not yet removed a brooding sense of national failure.Feeding their sense of failure is the Arabs' bitter, losing contest with Israel.

With Bure out of the game, the Canucks lost the contest 5 1.

"The fact that Lee, the most liberal person in the caucus, lost the contest for caucus chair by 10 votes should say a lot," said a progressive House aide who was unauthorized to speak on the record.

The PPP lost the contest, with Bhutto arguing that the elections had been rigged against her.

A minor omission in New Jersey's application was one reason the state lost the contest.

However, the Giants scored five runs in the sixth inning against Pirates starter Fritz Ostermueller, so Hansen did not receive a decision; the Giants lost the contest, 9 8.

Thus Indians were at the center and not always on the losing end of a contest for authority that spanned the Atlantic world.

The Hopkins team lost the contest 4 0.

But she was only delaying the inevitable and she lost the contest when she twice overshot the baseline.

One explanation is that management may be predisposed to settling in the context of a control slate contest because the cost of losing the contest is much higher.