Sentence examples for unpredictable contests from inspiring English sources

The horse race for best musical between "Newsies," a high-energy show about 19th-century New York City newsboys, and "Once," a low-key story of unrequited love on the streets of Dublin, is only one of an unusually high number of unpredictable contests at the Tonys.

All this made the trial a peculiarly unpredictable contest.

There are also two other candidates in what is expected to be an unpredictable contest: Deborah Beth Noble, the Working Families Party candidate, and Robert H. Kalechman, a petition candidate, both from Simsbury.

The city's Board of Elections said yesterday that Ruben Diaz Sr .had defeated the incumbent state senator, Pedro Espada Jr., by 113 votes in the Sept. 10 Democratic Senate primary in the Bronx, ending an unpredictable contest complete with courtroom battles.

In terms of an unpredictable contest which she trailed 3-0 in the first set and 3-1 in the third - and which, at one stage, was slipping so rapidly from her grasp that she lost seven consecutive games - she may count herself lucky to remain in the tournament at all.

A decade-old arrest of Councilman Jumaane Williams has surfaced in the final stretch of the New York City public advocate's race, roiling what had already been an unpredictable contest as his rivals demanded more information just before the polls were set to open on Tuesday.

Casting them as a father and son who've spent their lives trying to outdo each other makes The Judge a highly unpredictable contest of wills.

A battle between two adversaries who know each other's strengths and weaknesses inside out, the European Cup final of 2008 was a match totally devoid of the sort of exotic contrasts and unpredictable internal contests that once marked this most glamorous of club contests.

The new workers tend to vote Republican in state and local elections, but they have proved unpredictable in contests for national office.

The result is the most pluralistic and unpredictable presidential contest since the 1979 revolution and a surprisingly good advertisement for Iran's supervised semi-democracy.

South Carolina is a critical piece in the strategy of the Romney campaign, and perhaps its toughest challenge yet in an unpredictable nominating contest.