Sentence examples for the very contest from inspiring English sources

It is inconsistent for them now to object to the very contest procedure they previously endorsed.

Orhan Pamuk won the very first contest in 1990 for The White Castle.

Despite his presidential campaign, which flamed out after the very first contest, and his limited national stature, Brownback represents an intriguing running mate for McCain.

The very first caption contest ran in 1998.

Fourth, it is quite possible that if the Sanders campaign can organize its own pledged delegates behind this issue as the very opening floor contest over credentials, much as Ted Kennedy waged a rules floor fight in the 1980 convention, Sanders might attract enough of the Clinton identity politics crowd to win this issue on the high ground of morals and ethics.

Of course, there is a place for contests that subvert the very notion of a beauty contest, and I have spectated and cheered on the occasional queer contest that did just that.

His new book on Edmund Burke seeks to contest the very nature of today's Tory Party.

The very point of the contest is to render an opponent temporarily unconscious or to bruise and bloody him into a helpless state of "technical" knockout.

Secularists and minority groups, who continue to contest the very composition of the constituent assembly, bitterly oppose much of the current draft.

Jesse Norman's Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet "seeks to contest the very nature of today's Tory Party", wrote the Labour MP Jon Cruddas in the Independent.

How do they teach the reasoned discussion that is crucial to the health of democracy, while students — and the public at large — contest the very idea, and even see dialogue as "violence"?