In the end, Shawky seems most intent on chronicling the fundamental contests between the will to power vs. the will to survive which fuels antagonisms and treacheries.
Initially he improved relations with the Soviets, believing that closer ties would restore balance to Canada's international position and deemphasize Canada's role as a partisan of the West, but Trudeau did not contest fundamental U.S. policy regarding the Soviet Union, the Middle East, and even American involvement in the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia.
Most obviously, it defines the strike zone through which the ball must pass to be called a "strike," a fundamental part of the contest between pitcher and batter.
He said, the people behind the release were "agents doing the dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry know they can't contest the fundamental science of human-caused climate change.
The debate has emerged as so consequential, in fact, that operatives for Mr. Gore and Mr. Bush said they had suspended many important strategic decisions, at least until Wednesday, so they could gauge whether the fundamental dynamics of the contest have been shifted.
RHP may consist of the fundamental ability of contestants, such as physical strength ('fighting ability'), modified by further influences on contest ability, for example, positional advantages and prior-ownership.
North Carolina became the national poster child of what donors were capable of in post-Citizens United election cycles — especially in state and local elections where an additional million dollars can radically alter the fundamentals of an electoral contest.
Like the American civil war, the state of undeclared hostility between the US and the Soviet Union from 1945 to the late 1980s was "a necessary contest that settled fundamental issues once and for all".
Not since Ronald Reagan's challenge to President Gerald Ford in 1976 has there been such a frank contest over the fundamentals of the party.
In classes on political parties and the presidential selection process, they weighed whether 2008's contest could bring a fundamental shift in the American political debate.
