11. But the public highway stints with checkpoints make it an endurance contest , not a speed event. 12. A daylong festival can turn into an endurance contest , no matter how good the music is. 13. He concluded the situation as It is an endurance contest between me and people in Fukushima. 14. As a four-hour endurance contest , the 71st annual Academy Awards seemed even longer than usual. 15. Though it may feel like an endurance contest , at some point changes will occur in the weather. 16. There are essential skills that almost no one can acquire who hasn't survived the election endurance contests . 17. But because " Big Brother " is an endurance contest with rules, it offers CBS little scheduling flexibility. 18. But analysts say, and Iowa results indicate, that Forbes may have peaked too early for the endurance contest to come. 19. Rep . John Conyers Jr ., D-Mich ., called the proceeding an " endurance contest ." 20. But a system of points for each of nine legs has made the Whitbread more of an endurance contest than ever before.