Sentence examples for a friendly contest from inspiring English sources

A friendly contest creates a peer group and an intensified intellectual atmosphere.

Brazil versus Argentina is never a friendly contest, and of all the teams showing a fresh look this week, Brazil's strategy has again looked the most handsome.

In central areas of London the longer format is hanging on, as social sides enjoy a friendly contest followed by a pint or few in the local pub.

A friendly contest can turn into a pitched battle when the score is tied and the team that scores next wins.

Whether such a friendly contest can be used as a yardstick by which to measure Test candidates is doubtful but then the selectors have little else to judge by.

They promised they were engaged "in a friendly contest so that our party colleagues who take the decision can choose which of us is better placed to unite the party".

Nigel Worthington's reign as the full-time Northern Ireland manager began in a losing fashion last night as Martin Petrov inspired Bulgaria in a tight friendly contest in Belfast.

The Assemblathon2 contest was organized as a friendly competition to assess current methods and evaluate the state of genome assembly by providing datasets of primarily short reads for three different vertebrate genomes.

One officer involved in the contests, Lt. James Tatreau, told the paper, "It's just a friendly competition to have a little fun out here".

It is already proving a far from friendly contest.

The United States men's soccer team played its first match since November today, what was meant to be a tension-free, "friendly" contest against China at the Network Associates Coliseum.