1.   The incontestable statement that every contest has a winner and a loser.

2.   Like boxers in a ring, they confronted one another, only the contest had little to do with the pugilistic art.

3.   Although presidential contests have a smaller impact on races for the Senate and House of Representatives in this day of widespread ticket-splitting, they do have some.

4.   As always, the contest has nothing to do with Afghan welfare and everything to do with strategic ambitions.

5.   A Carnahan-Talent contest has plenty of potential to be close.

6.   But the contest has the feel of real because the major contenders are playing their first string.

7.   But this closely watched contest has significance beyond Kentucky.

8.   Contests would also have to be held between the first Monday of February and the first Tuesday of June.

9.   Even anti-hunting groups will admit that predator hunting contests have almost no impact on populations.

10.   No doubt the contest had no lingering effect.