Sentence examples for the pageant which from inspiring English sources

Gary bid $1.2 million to play host to the pageant, which is co-owned by CBS and Donald J. Trump, who just happens to own a casino here.

Organisers had hoped the pageant, which was to have featured underwear contests and a freestyle talent display, would be a milestone event heralding a change in the Chinese society's traditionally conservative attitude towards homosexuality.

I said, 'Yeah, pass the gravy.' " In 1971, Adams arranged for the Miss Universe contestants to walk down Seventh Avenue as a publicity stunt for the pageant, which was to take place in Miami that year.

The pageant, which has crowned winners of various ethnicities, one woman with a disability and another with a "life-threatening illness" (the 1998 winner was diabetic) is running out of dramatic "firsts".

Mr. Darnell said more than 1,000 women signed up for the show, a number that was pared through interviews to 50 who started the pageant, which was taped in Las Vegas last week.

The publication of the ThisDay article ignited a wider Muslim protest against the pageant, which many Nigerian Muslims have condemned as promoting promiscuity and offending female modesty and sexual morality.

A self-described "beauty queen from way back," Samala was named Queen of the Universe in 1991 and later bought the rights to that pageant, which dates back to the 1970s and bills itself as "the world's leading transgender pageant".

Five of the nine "Little House" books are set around the town, where there are 20 Laura-related sites (most open to the public) including historic homes, the homestead where the Ingalls family farmed and the annual pageant — which celebrated its 40th anniversary last month — re-enacting a different novel each year.

Entwistle's chances were at one stage thought to have diminished in the wake of the much-criticised BBC coverage of the Diamond Jubilee pageant, which came under his responsibility.

The decision – which was later overturned – caused several Miss World contestants to withdraw from the beauty pageant, which was being held in Nigeria the same year.

The local competitions, franchised by the 52 state pageants, have no legal ties to the national organization, though they feed contestants into the national pageant, which moved to Las Vegas from Atlantic City last year and will be broadcast on the TLC cable channel in January.