Sentence examples for use of contests from inspiring English sources

ADVERTISERS and agencies are trying to determine how the disclosure that promotional games at McDonald's restaurants were rigged during the last six years -- costing customers the chance to win more than $13 million in cash and prizes -- will affect the growing use of contests and sweepstakes to woo consumers.

The use of contests between groups instead of families or villages.

The irony is that Mr. Bebchuk, who Mr. Icahn is nominating for Yahoo's board, wrote a paper in 2001 with the following conclusion: "Proxy fights unaccompanied by an acquisition often suffer from substantial shortcomings that limit the use of such contests in practice".

It could also provide affordable fixes to the thorniest global problems, argues John Kao, the founder of the Institute for Large Scale Innovation, which advocates the use of prizes and contests to encourage breakthroughs on social ills.But what is the best way for governments to boost innovation?

For me, the most interesting part of the essay was Cody's use of the Caption Contest in his writing courses.

Typically, these types of collections are encouraged by the use of special offers or contests.

The director of the University of Mississippi's department of public policy leadership, Robert Haws, said he had also noted the use of race in the contest.

The designation 'war' validates the use of force for the contest of power.

This widget makes use of Goldenrod's integrated contesting function, which lets people get entries for sharing the widget, and automatically chooses a random winner (the giveaway deployed in this case is a so-called "Fab Find").

Presidential bids have become dearer in part because the primary season is much more compressed than it used to be, with the bulk of contests clumped together over a couple of weeks.

The authority said £1.6m was used to contest a series of injunctions brought by the travellers.