Sentence examples for trigger a contest from inspiring English sources

They require the backing of 75 parties to trigger a contest.

Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns said she would "100%" submit a letter to the backbench 1922 Committee to trigger a contest.

Allies of Eagle expect her to trigger a contest as early as Monday if Watson is unable to persuade Corbyn to quit.

The spokesman said the only way to challenge Corbyn would be for another MP to collect nominations and trigger a contest.

Lord Falconer uses his essay to join the campaign for new powers of recall in which an unhappy electorate would be able to trigger a contest to get rid of an unpopular MP.

Even if 80 Labour MPs publicly call for him to go, Labour's rules make it hard to trigger a contest (you need 20% of the PLP, and then a majority in a card vote at conference) and the cabinet "men in grey suits" are not going to come after Brown because he's just given them new or better jobs.

Michael Heseltine then challenged her for the Conservative party leadership, triggering a contest from which she subsequently withdrew.

Labour MPs can see the essential ridiculousness of triggering a contest a year after the last one with the incumbent the favourite to win the leadership again.

If he'd won the EU vote, the right might still have come for him, triggering a contest that Johnson could well have won.

Apart from Cantor's dramatic defeat, which led him to stand down as majority leader and triggered a contest for power, the Tea Party movement has struggled to secure prominent scalps during this primary season, having funded deeply conservative candidates who failed in Senate primaries in Kentucky, Georgia and North Carolina.

How would the Tories trigger a leadership contest?