Sentence examples similar to wide contest from inspiring English sources

Democrat candidates in state wide contests usually win by this strategy: First the candidate must take up a centrist platform in the General election which appeals to at least half of the Independents and also might peel away a Republican vote or two.

However the colonists envisioned themselves, they were pawns in an Atlantic-wide contest for bullion and shipping lanes.

Turnout at the European election has fallen at every poll since 1979.In response, Mr Schulz is arguing for a political experiment that would turn the election into a Europe-wide contest.

For such an elegant innovation, the name is all elbows — the acronym is Geometry and Function In N Adaptations, or GINA, and it's hard to imagine that an office-wide contest wouldn't have turned up something snappier.

Mr Danczuk, who is on the party's right wing, is understood to be considering a challenge that he hopes would trigger a wider contest.

There is a wider contest for influence going on, and thus far China is winning.Aidan Foster-Carter Honorary senior research fellow in sociology and modern Korea Leeds University.

If the crisis in the eurozone evolves into a wider contest between aggrieved nations craving self-determination against arrogant supranational elites, there is no doubt which side will win.

DES MOINES — After a weeks-long battle over the allegiance of Iowa caucusgoers, the race for the Republican nomination broke open into a wider contest on Wednesday, as the remaining candidates moved to exploit a still-unsettled electorate and expanded playing field in New Hampshire and South Carolina.

Mr Jeraisi insisted that this was for the government, not the council, to decide.Until this year, most viewed the squabble as a political football in the wider contest between Israel's declining Communist party (historically the main political tribune for Israel's 1m or so Arab citizens) and the rising Islamist movement.

"The death of the elephant is a disaster that proceeds from other disasters," he said, claiming they were the victims of a wider contest for global resources reflected in human trafficking, poaching and a population explosion likely to reach 11 billion by 2050.

They will reason that Respect is little more than a platform for Mr Galloway's noisy one-man band, a peculiar mix of Marxism and mosque that might thrive in a byelection but would not convince anyone in a wider contest.