The duel in New Hampshire, it grumbled, had degenerated into an apolitical beauty contest.
But royal succession isn't a beauty contest, or an episode of The X Factor.
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Prizes and awards are taxed whether you win a drawing, quiz show, beauty contest, or lottery.
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He helped see that she won a local beauty contest, where she was named Miss Coffee and Guava.
Likewise, the winner of an international beauty contest may genuinely be the most beautiful person in the world.
Most polls put him third in the beauty contest, behind Elizabeth Dole, with only 5% of the vote.
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.
Many people thought the winner of a transvestite beauty contest in Pattaya in March was as attractive as the woman crowned Miss Thailand.
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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One day, I received a letter informing me, in her usual terse fashion, that she was going to take part in a beauty contest.
As well as the beauty contest and auctions, the festival also has contests in traditional pursuits such as camel racing, camel milking, falconry and date packaging.
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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.
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.
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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She came second in the festival's "Miss Koovagam" 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".
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.
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.
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Concours, an elite automotive expo and beauty contest where cars of only the highest caliber--Bugatti, Duisenberg, Packard, Rolls-Royce--compete in 28 different classes, from which one car wins best in show.
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.
The beauty-contest incident may indicate that the religious authorities are growing more assertive.
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.
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.
"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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