Sentence examples for a personal contest from inspiring English sources

Solving is an escape to some, a personal contest to others.

And no other sport except prize-fighting is so spectacularly a personal contest.

First of all, there is a personal contest for the attention and love of John McCain.

Heath remains silent on the disarray in the E. E. C. The campaign is a personal contest between Heath and Wilson.

In a personal contest of senior guards, Jaraan Cornell, the Boilermakers' streaky shooting guard, rarely escaped the shadow of Mike Kelley.

Because tax reform is the centrepiece of Mr Kohl's snail-like programme to increase growth and jobs, Mr Lafontaine, a traditional left-winger, has made it the battleground for a personal contest with the chancellor.

The Oscars battle will make for a ­fascinating personal contest, almost a movie in itself.

The Spitzenkandidaten, the German name for leading candidates of the main umbrella groups to become president of the European Commission, claimed it was a victory for the idea of having a more personal contest for the job.

In what sounds like an increasingly personal contest with a fellow amateur theologian in his Afghan cave, this may have been deliberate.

And from the wildfire-hazy mountains in Missoula to the state's yellowing eastern plains, it is playing out as a bitter, personal contest between two men trying to out-Montana each other.

In what could turn into a increasingly personal contest between the two candidates, Leadsom mentioned the fact that Theresa May does not have children in an interview with The Times newspaper.