Sentence examples for a fierce contest from inspiring English sources

Clark is looking forward to what could be a fierce contest.

A fierce contest refused to subside thereafter, but Stockport held out to claim the spoils.

But Gove is likely to face a fierce contest from another Brexit-supporting MP.

It is a symbol of the promise and peril of a fierce contest under way in south Asia.

Palm Beach, who looked so assured in the first half, are suddenly drawn into a fierce contest.

In the mid-nineties, after losing first place, Mozilo saw his company as being engaged in a fierce contest for industry dominance.

Ireland creaked in the first half but were competitive in a tight, fierce contest.

As President Bush's re-election campaign races to accumulate the largest treasury in history, a similarly fierce contest has begun among his best-connected supporters.

Iowa became an unexpectedly fierce contest, with John Kerry emerging as a winner and quickly rolling on to victories in New Hampshire and other early primary states.

SACRAMENTO — It's being billed as a battle of the whales here in the state capital, an increasingly fierce contest pitting billionaire against billionaire.

All this points to an increasingly fierce contest between Wal-Mart and labor groups that are bent on mobilizing and organizing the company's work force, with a near-term goal of pressing for higher wages and a longer-term goal of emboldening workers to demand a union.