Sentence examples for condition of the playing from inspiring English sources

After barely sidestepping Hurricane Irene and then waiting out a deluge that caused the postponement of Tuesday's matches and weather delays Wednesday, the players who remain in the United States Open have much riding on the condition of the playing surfaces at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

Concerns had been raised about the condition of the playing surface because of dry brown patches and the sight of a groundsman applying green spray to the pitch on Thursday.

The Wolverines arrived here late this morning and switched their brief, but closed after noon practice from Ohio Sta dium to a nearby practice field to preserve the condition of the playing field for tomor row's game.

The lesson they learned was a reiteration of the message of Nanak, who had, more than two centuries earlier, similarly asked for a head as a pre-condition for the playing the game of love (life).

In addition, we examined whether during the active condition, the identity of the playing hand (right/left) could be determined based on the patterns of fMRI signal in various brain regions in individual trials.

Straits (as in dire) make up the existential condition of the play's four characters, rudderless teenagers who promise to remain in arrested, unhappy adolescence all their lives.

Set in the early 1980's in Gibraltar (as in Straits of), that last tenuous outpost of British colonialism, straits (as in dire) make up the existential condition of the play's four rudderless teenagers.

In part, their idea to bowl yorkers wide of off stump to get batsmen to hit into the strong wind, while a sound one, was thwarted by subjective interpretation of the playing conditions concerning wides in one-day cricket.

This brought a warning from the SPL over the condition of a playing surface that is once again something of a wasteland – it had to be re-laid last summer after a number of postponements brought chaos to the league's schedule – and clearly irked the manager.

The pH of the reaction mixture can significantly alter the reducing conditions of the environment playing a major role in the synthetic procedure.

"Our programs also have an emphasis on the original playing conditions of the play and any evidence about its first production and publication," said Nick Robins, head of periodicals for Shakespeare's Globe.