Sentence examples for underlying contest from inspiring English sources

Actually, there is an underlying contest over who is more tired and who has truly earned his or her tiredness.

Change the underlying context.

Peter McGraw, a consumer psychologist who teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Phil Fernbach, a Brown University cognitive scientist, set out to crack the code underlying our Caption Contest by analyzing all 5,971 submissions to Caption Contest #281.

The women who marched past the Freedom Trash Can outside the Miss America pageant weren't protesting the absence of female judges; they were protesting the contest's underlying values.

But it is the question that underlies the current contest.

Rick Santorum's victories in Tennessee, Oklahoma and North Dakota on Super Tuesday, and his very strong showing in Ohio, will give hope to journalists who love the horse race, without changing the underlying dynamics of the Republican contest.

Clearly, Mr. McCain enjoyed momentum from earlier contests, but also underlying his victory was the popularity of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who endorsed him, as well as an unusual split between religious and ideological conservatives in the state, who tend to vote in tandem, and California's complex immigration politics.

When that happens, the underlying partisanship kicks in, and most such contests are boring, predictable affairs -- meaning that all the real action was determining which candidate associated with the majority party advanced to the runoff.

Much research has focused on the factors underlying variation in aggression and likelihood of winning contests.

Underlying the extension of the certification deadline and the shortchanging of the contest period was, presumably, the clear implication that certification was a matter of significance: The certified winner would enjoy presumptive validity, making a contest proceeding by the losing candidate an uphill battle.

Here, we demonstrate that underlying properties of individual flight dynamics can, at least in part, predict the outcome of the leadership contest within these pairs.