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He is the youngest contestant in the swimming competition.
Power, place, advantage are at stake as the contestants gloat at one moment in a point scored and protest in the next they are being unfairly treated.
A local architectural competition based on the anonymity of its contestants and judged by a panel of experts stipulates certain parameters that impact on the design process.
The political reaction that these judgements represent are likely to be an ever-present consideration in elections where the contestants for office have accepted some responsibility for managing the economy.
The study has also been able to complement the existing research on new parties by formulating a theoretical argument for the fluctuation in support of new contestants.
Though the flyers advertised an allmale competition followed by an all-female one, the latter did not occur, most likely due to a lack of willing contestants.
Following the example of previous cross-national studies of new parties, the dependent variable for the emergence of new parties is measured by the count of new contestants in each election.
The change from having no public funding to having some public funding for new parties increases the expected count of new contestants by about 50 per cent.
Nevertheless, the norm has been to protect sitting members, as the "net" success rate for contestants is only 4.3 percent.
