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no contest 
1. Lit. [in games] a situation where one team fails to appear for a competition. It was declared no contest because the opposing team was stuck in traffic out on the expressway.
2. Fig. a situation where the winner-to-be of a contest is obvious even before holding the contest. It was no contest. The wrestler was so big and strong that no one could have defeated him.

not going to win any beauty contests

Fig. homely; ugly. Fred isn't going to win any beauty contests, but he's smart and considerate and he does well at his job. This old truck of mine is not going to win any beauty contests, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.
See also: any, beauty, going, win
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AaAs-Safir newspaper, citing well-informed sources from the Constitutional Council, said Tuesday decisions concerning contestations will be announced Wednesday or Thursday.
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In our case, we analysed the electoral process step by step, with all the disputes people know about (the contestation of the election results by the opposition).
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of the Western Cape, South Africa), who describes the tradition from its origins within the "liberalism struggle" in the Dutch Reformed Church in the Cape Colony around 1850 through Marxist dialectic during the 1970s and 1980s and contestation around the status of Afrikaans during the 1990s.
The dialectical tradition in South Africa by Reference & Research Book News
 
 
 
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