Sentence examples for contest centre from inspiring English sources

The knee injury that followed is in some ways the classic Goodesian football tale; never again would he contest centre bounces but through it he still strung together 204 consecutive games, reinventing himself as a midfield general who'd crash into congestion and swoop away with the ball or head forward and kick goals, 464 of them all told.

Broadly speaking, that would be a contest between centre-left and centre-right.

Mr Brown has never done anything like this before: he urged Labour to contest the centre ground as a young moderniser, and helped inspire the party's centrist election campaigns in 1997, 2001 and 2005.

This resulted in a Conservative party leadership contest, with Brexit centre stage, and Theresa May's ascension to the top job at No 10.

Both promise, in different ways, to turn the page on the past and make swift reforms to modernise France.But it is the contest for the centre ground, fought over values and personalities, not policy differences, that has dominated the final two weeks of the campaign.

But Prandelli insists Italy will be ready for the world champions in the Olympic Stadium and believes the contest in the centre of midfield will be crucial.

Romney's departure sets up a possible head-to-head contest on the centre-right.

The second round looks set to be an awkward three-way contest with the centre-right and the Socialists.

However, Hollande's poor poll ratings indicate that the presidential election will be a contest between the centre-right politician and current favourite, Alain Juppé, and the far-right Front National leader, Marine Le Pen.

Those incidents overshadowed a see-sawing contest in which Titans centre James Roberts scored a double, as did Richards.

Yorkshire is going through a period of extreme Yorkshireness at the moment, with a contest over the geographical centre of the county and a vast exercise in reworking the county anthem, On Ilkla Moor Baht 'At.