Sentence examples for a direct contest from inspiring English sources

Others wanted a direct contest.

The runoff round saw Yanukovich and Yushchenko in a direct contest.

By May 2008 Tymoshenko was engaged in a direct contest for power with President Yushchenko.

At this stage I do see it as a direct contest between me and Nicole for the team leader position because of the nature of the course.

Indians are due to vote by May in what many see as a direct contest between Gandhi and Hindu nationalist leader Narendra Modi.

Tension between the two camps built over the winter, so that the ostracism of 482 BC became a direct contest between Themistocles and Aristides.

"It was a directing contest".

The Rider can try to lead the Elephant, but in any direct contest of wills the Elephant is going to win - it has a six-ton advantage".

As taught by Ueshiba, it was so purely defensive an art that no direct contest between practitioners was possible.

Direct contest for food is reflected by a high rate of agonistic inter-sexual interactions.

Indeed, the lines of fragmentation only begin here: beyond the increasing internal debate, al-Qaida and its local affiliates find themselves in direct contest with other, often more established Islamist groups with radically different worldviews and agendas, many of which now enjoy greater popularity because they are not so ready to spill the blood of their fellow Muslims.