Sentence examples for transform a race from inspiring English sources

Larry Ellison, the owner of the Oracle software company and the world's deepest-pocketed sailing aficionado, had used his right to choose the venue and format of the event granted to the defending champion of the world's most prestigious regatta to transform a race that had previously been little more than a vanity contest into a viable spectator sport.

George Jepsen, a former Connecticut Senate majority leader and former Democratic state chairman, said Mr. Blumenthal's candidacy instantly transformed a race that Republicans had stood a "significant chance" of winning while Mr. Dodd was the candidate.

He called for new safeguards "to stop companies cutting costs by slashing workers' wages and transforming a race-to-the-bottom culture into a rate-for-the-job society".

As a general rule, that's surely true, but is it enough to transform a five-point race into a tie?

Ms Edwards said that merging the two forms of assessment without fixing their flaws would be like "harnessing two donkeys to a farm cart and expecting it to transform into a race chariot".

Here was a chance to uncouple immigration from race and transform a threat into a promise.

In Alaska, a catch-share system adopted in 1995 has transformed an intense race to catch the last allowable fish into a sustainable and profitable fishery.

But then it transformed into a race to help out a cause, Malaria No More, in a meaningful way.

The bookies must be loving this.... 4.50pm Welcome to the National: a race transformed A Grand National winner at 100-1.

His campaign features hokey "evenings with Angelika and Jürgen Rüttgers" at which voters learn that he haunts DIY shops on holiday in France.Two misfortunes have transformed a walkover into a race.

National Republicans, still smarting over the way she transformed a little-noticed House race into a closely watched referendum on the Medicare plan, have made her a top target this fall.