Sentence examples for The key contests from inspiring English sources

However, the key contests have now at least settled to two main regions – Brisbane and its suburbs and the mining and sugar belt of central Queensland.

This year's fixture had long been identified as one of the key contests in the 2011 pool stages but the build-up to the match had been affected by France coach Marc Lievremont's decision to select what some observers felt was a below strength team, including Morgan Parra, normally a scrum-half, at fly-half.

As National Journal's Ron Brownstein reports, the key contests on March 4th are Texas and Ohio.

Still, the race in Pennsylvania is one of the key contests in determining which party controls the Senate next year.

Behind the scenes, a serious battle has raged between the administration's development czars - and interestingly, while Hillary Clinton ended up prevailing in most of the key contests, she has yet to put her stamp on a more effective approach to 21st century international development and hasn't yet upgraded her own department's growing but mostly ignored nation-stabilizing, smart power team.

But Milan is probably the key contest for Renzi.

The key contest is in Baden-Württemberg, which the CDU has governed since 1953.

Although much attention has been paid to rows over settlements in the occupied West Bank, it is in Jerusalem that the key contest is being fought.

It is hard to imagine a more exotic tie than the one between Costa Rica and China, but the key contest in that match was between the Manchester City center-forward Paulo Wanchope and the Dundee and former Crystal Palace center-back Fan Zhiyi.

The key considerations are whether Cook is the right man to captain the side in the World Cup and, crucially, whether he can withstand England's crazy schedule and still be at the top of his game for the Ashes, which remains the key contest for most cricket fans.

In this key contest, the "we're-too-cool-to-have-our-names-on-our-shirts" Yankees were no match for the clearly labeled National League squad.