Sentence examples for without a contest from inspiring English sources

Nobody ought to expect to get elected without a contest.

The Republicans did not want to let the Democrats take Ohio without a contest.

James Chapman in the Daily Mail says David Miliband is "bemused" by suggestions that Lord Mandelson would like him to become the next Labour leader without a contest.

The DAB's Mr Tsang thinks that this year's contested chief-executive election will have reinforced its opposition to faster democratisation, despite Donald Tsang's strong popular support.China had hoped to have him re-elected without a contest.

But they will doubtless settle for this.As it happens, Labour MPs did have a chance to choose a different leader in 2007, when Mr Brown took over without a contest.

With its unrivalled ability – certainly unrivalled by Labour – to sort itself out efficiently, the Tory party discovered at the weekend that it was ready to unite around Mrs May without a contest after all.

The second is that without such a contest the party will have lost its only chance to renew its sense of purpose and direction.

You cannot go into any store today without seeing a contest for the largest pumpkin or a contest asking you to try to guess the size.

It was Diack, together with the IAAF's former general secretary Essar Gabriel, who suddenly decided to put the decision to award the championships to Eugene, which had previously narrowly lost out to Doha for the 2019 competition, to a vote without a bidding contest.

A party could not bring a contest without having gone, under Section 166, previously?

I think, Your Honor, a party could have brought a contest without having gone the 166 route.