Sentence examples for contest fought from inspiring English sources

Ascot stages the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup, a novelty four-cornered jockeys' points contest fought over six handicaps of various distances, with a draw for mounts.

And, although religion is never entirely absent from Islam's foremost democracy, this has been a contest fought overwhelmingly over secular issues.Yet the country's democracy is still young.

She and her team assumed that a presidential contest fought on the single issue of Jeremy Corbyn's competence would deliver her a three-figure majority.

Democrats staged the vote to press their advantage coming out of their victory on Tuesday in the contest, fought in large part over Medicare, for a House seat in upstate New York that had long been in Republican hands.

"There must be no more Great Games with Afghan people the pawns," Mr Straw said, referring to the 19th century contest fought principally between the British and Russian empires and their proxies for control of Central Asia.

Nor that the candidate himself had no plans to appear anywhere near it before Tuesday's primary, a contest fought in recent days with a fierceness that has few parallels in the state's political history.

A projection based on analysis of six comparable contests fought by the top two parties puts Conservatives just 0.5% ahead.

After 16 days of adrenalin and delight, of contests fought and won, of teary triumphs and devastating defeat, the Games of London 2012 are abruptly at a close.

Instead, he implicated Blatter's camp in a plot to remove him from the election contest, and fought back by successfully bringing Blatter into the ethics case.

In this broader sense, Okinotori is but one piece in a much bigger contest being fought out across east Asia and beyond.

Politically, it's both one of its more polarised and one of its most finely-balanced, depending on the type of contest being fought.