She won a four-year college scholarship, the top prize nationally in a public speaking contest on the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

At the age of twenty-one, she won a national contest to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

The contest quickly became popular in the United States and Canada.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

There will be a run-off election in the presidential contest if no candidate captures more than 50 percent of the vote.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

McDonnell appears to be attracting some of the same moderate voters that supported Barack Obama in last year's presidential contest in Virginia.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

It says Sunday's vote took place under "acceptable conditions" and losing candidates who want to contest the result should do so in Gabon's constitutional court.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

The Washington Post reported voter turnout information allegedly kept secret by the chief envoy for the United Nations in Afghanistan,Kai Eide, provides further evidence the August 20 contest was marred by fraud.

VOA: standard.2009.10.07

Kerry,during a recent trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan, is credited with playing a key role in convincing Afghan President Hamid Karzai to enter a run-off election, following wide-spread corruption that tainted the initial contest in August.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

The fast-paced sport of ice hockey is thrilling when there is a tightly-played contest, but that is not what spectators observed in each of the opening women's games contested by Canada and the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

Senator Specter, who's been in the Senate for 29 years, would face a difficult reelection contest next year as a Republican in Pennsylvania, a state that backed Barack Obama over Republican John McCain in last year's presidential race.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28