Sentence examples for a team to contend from inspiring English sources

According to the British news media, City has spent $957 million building a team to contend with United, one that is also trying to advance to the knockout round of the UEFA Champions League.

Strahan said that he was also pleased with the Giants' free-agent additions and said that he expected the team to contend for a playoff berth.

"But I expected the team to contend in our division.

For a team expected to contend for a national title, it was a reality check.

In these Jets, he sees a team built to contend for the championship he never delivered to San Diego, his only regret.

It was probably not the way Rivers would have preferred to spend his 53rd birthday, watching another largely listless effort by a team expected to contend for the Western Conference title.

But in dispatching a Michigan team expected to contend in the Big Ten it served a higher purpose — impressing Coach Nick Saban.

And for all the history between the rosters, the game is most appealing as a measure of a newly constructed Nets team hoping to contend against the Heat, the defending N.B.A. champions, for whom nothing less than another title could be considered a success.

Ewing also called yesterday's victory "a great game," a kind of post-All-Star Game break gauge for a team with much hope and perhaps as much possibility, the difference between a team that wants to contend for the Eastern Conference title and another that has been there, done that, and now wants more.

It was a huge blow for last-place Detroit, a team many expected to contend for the division championship after making the playoffs for the first time in more than a decade.

"What matters to a fan," Mr. Costas said, "is the perception of a team's ability to contend".