But royal succession isn't a beauty contest, or an episode of The X Factor.
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She began taking dance lessons, and she won a beauty contest at 9.
But as much as experts like to argue about tactics, women's soccer is not a chess match or a beauty contest.
Traditionally, this is a pretty conservative affair, and it may be something of a beauty contest for the candidates on the right.
One day, I received a letter informing me, in her usual terse fashion, that she was going to take part in a beauty contest.
They are also competing in a beauty contest for the backing of potentially hostile unions, which fear for the jobs of 19, 000 members employed in several British factories.
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The caucuses did not automatically decide which candidate receives Maine's delegates at the Republican National Convention in August, and the poll was largely viewed as a beauty contest, reports the BBC's Jonathan Blake in Washington.
In a famous analogy, the economist John Maynard Keynes once likened the stock market to a beauty contest in which the object is to vote not for the prettiest face but for the face that the majority of voters will consider the prettiest.
He helped see that she won a local beauty contest, where she was named Miss Coffee and Guava.
Many people thought the winner of a transvestite beauty contest in Pattaya in March was as attractive as the woman crowned Miss Thailand.
Out of every 10 students who sign up at Smiles, only one can expect to make it as a model or succeed in a notable beauty contest.
He said one advantage of the sectoral approach was that the results would be measurable and transparent and less subject to what he called a political "beauty contest".
Before that, of course I mean after the telegram we had spoken on the phone, and I had heard the story of the beauty contest a number of times.
Prizes and awards are taxed whether you win a drawing, quiz show, beauty contest, or lottery.
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To conduct its beauty contest, the Bernstein team took a look at 11 companies and handicaps their odds on a variety of different metrics.
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The properties were developed by Ms. Sturm, who learned how to ride horses at her father's ranch and won the Miss Reno Rodeo contest a combination riding and beauty competition in 1980.
After Super Tuesday on March 6, a new candidate could still file for the Nebraska beauty contest, the Minnesota caucuses, and the primaries in New Mexico, California, Utah, South Dakota, New Jersey and Texas.
Even assuming that Mr Davis can be ousted, Mr Schwarzenegger has a fight on his hands to win the second, beauty-contest, part of the ballot.
"We will like each other until we find out who wins this contest, " said Mr. Smith, 27 years old, of a virtual beauty pageant for New York doormen.
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