"It wasn't a contest of egos, more a roomful of peers".
"It's not a contest of who can find the most flavor notes," Zykan said.
Although Fast Company is happy with how the partnership has turned out, she added: "This is not a contest to name a shade of lipstick or a nail color.
But it's not a contest between the reality of when I was this age and the way I am now.
"We've always had the most black people of any camp," he noted, adding: "It's not a contest!" Back at the Church of 8, Miles points to a group of skaters circling around the rink.
Literature, of course, is not a contest.
Away from the microphones, members admitted that the three-day deliberation, which continued today in the Senate, as well, was not a true contest of ideas in which anyone expected to change a mind or a vote.
But more importantly, the election was not a compendium of local, caste-driven contests, it contained an important national narrative: throwing out a government widely seen as both corrupt and inept, and voting in a man who promised clean, decisive leadership, good governance and development.
It was designed to convey a particular message: that Mr. Obama was drawing enthusiastic support from white voters in Iowa and, more implicitly, that race was not a defining obstacle here in the first contest of the presidential nominating campaign.
"This campaign is not a personality contest," Sanders said near the beginning of a speech in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Thursday night.
