Sentence examples for a contested world from inspiring English sources

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"Increasingly, it lives in a contested world.

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In the last moment of a bitterly contested World Cup final, the English fly-half took delivery of the ball behind a ruck and dropped a goal to win the 2003 championship in Sydney.

Their players and England's players down the decades have contested World Cup elimination games, with their followers hyping their teams.

In the 500, Kim blazed ahead of the field from the starting gun and was never challenged, rare in the closely contested world of short-track.

The company has wagered heavily on the Nook, whose e-readers and tablets compete against Amazon's best-selling Kindle devices in the hotly contested world of electronic books.

Add to that the fact that Scotland have never reached a finals, or contested a World Cup play-off, and people would have been forgiven for thinking that history was about to repeat itself.

The Carthage Eagles are the only side in the group to have ever contested a World Cup finals, becoming the first African team to win a game at the tournament in 1978.

Burkina Faso are the only one of the top seeds to have never contested a World Cup before, while 2006 finalists Togo could be knocked out in the very first round.

One of Cameroon's most famous goalkeepers ever was Jacques Songo'o, who won two African Nations Cup and contested a World Cup, and his son Yann, who is on the book of Spain's Real Zaragoza, makes the squad.

In other words, for many years following the end of the Second World War, when the two superpowers [the U.S. and the Soviet Union] contested for world power, achieving a sort of balance of terror, China's main concern was its very survival, not least feeding its big population.

In 2011, though, Cape Blanco, trained by Aidan O'Brien and owned by Jim Hay, an associate of the Coolmore operation, contested the World Cup, and at this year's meeting, O'Brien saddled runners for core members of the syndicate.

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