Sentence examples for The contests of from inspiring English sources

The contests of the first half of the 1970s, pitting the redoubtable stonewall batting (Geoffrey Boycott) and incisive swing bowling (John Snow, Bob Willis) of England against the top-order brilliance of the Chappell brothers (Ian and Greg) and the tearaway speed of Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson, were among the most even and entertaining in Ashes history.

Even with this handicap, Oxbridge has won half of the contests of the Jeremy Paxman era.

Even the vexed relations between the incumbent president and his vice president recalls the contests of 1960 and 1980.

Clark calls the disputation a "theater of warfare, combat, trial and joust," and, indeed, early proponents likened it to the contests of athletic champions in ancient Rome.

If the contests of yesterday were filled with aspiring professionals being judged by experts, a significant new strain of the Big Serious Piano Competition has risen up, and it is a considerably different animal.

CURLING traces its origins to 16th century Scotland, but the first Olympic gold medal in the contests of intense concentration, strategy and skill were not awarded until the 1998 Nagano Games.

They are now in the "Contest of the century".

THE CONTEST OF THE CENTURY, by Geoff Dyer (Knopf).

Who will win the contest of the Boateng brothers?

The week escalated the contest of estranged marriages.

For the record, we received 4,763 entries in the contest, of which 4,555 were correct.