Sentence examples for whose contest from inspiring English sources

He was to fly on to Orlando, Fla., where he planned to appear for a final rally with Democrats including Alex Sink, whose contest for governor with Rick Scott has been neck and neck for weeks.

And while Mr. McCain's statements may cost him votes among the religious right in Virginia, whose contest is one of three to be held on Tuesday, his aides were counting on media coverage to attract more moderate voters in New York, Ohio and California for their March 7 primaries -- which are more crucial to Mr. McCain's overall strategy.

The Hayne Drain reared his head in the 2009 grand final: facing Melbourne and attempting to guide Parramatta to their first premiership since 1986, Hayne, whose contest against opposing full-back Billy Slater had been eagerly anticipated, spent 80 minutes shuffling about the field with all the urgency and interest of an animatronic ham.

Buttigieg also presented himself as an alternative to Ellison and Perez, whose contest is widely viewed as a proxy battle between supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt).

And it was the kind of experience that presidential candidates encounter regularly these days both here and in Iowa, the states whose contests begin the presidential nominating process.

The candidate has curbed his criticism of Clinton, going through his litany of policy proposals without the lancing critiques of her he prominently featured in states whose contests occurred earlier in the primary season.

Olympic village," tweeted Buchanan, whose BMX contest starts on Wednesday.

Mr. Schwarzenegger is pushing, for example, to provide health care benefits to illegal immigrants, an idea that probably does not have much political currency in places like South Carolina or Iowa, whose nominating contests precede California's.

At the opposite extreme is the Miss India pageant, a beauty contest whose winner will compete for Miss World.

I don't know how it happened, but I completely missed a by-election contest whose result was declared last week.

We are, rather, participants in a political contest whose outcome will affect the lives of millions of people.