Sentence examples for contest of values from inspiring English sources

"There is going to be a contest of values and vision in 2012," he said.

But filling it with assertive Britishness is no guarantee of winning hearts and minds.Mr Cameron has committed Britain to a national contest of values with radical Islamism.

In Woodside, Calif., an affluent community between San Francisco and San Jose, Mr. Obama hit his stump-speech theme that the 2012 election will be "a contest of values," and then suggested that some in his audience might well be former Republicans "puzzled by what's happening to that party".

The increase of partisanship, the culture of political victory at all costs, Mr Bush's own policies and his enormous appeal to traditional America all risk making matters worse.Yet the contest of values is a source of strength as well as weakness for America.

What the audience received was no spirited left/right contest of gender values, but Latham barking easily disproven claims about gender pay disparities, more personal insults and then a shouting match with host Andrew O'Keefe.

The heart of Warren's appeal is her insistence that politics is a contest of competing values.

Helen Zille, the DA's leader, insists that voters want South African politics to be "an open contest of ideas and values", rather than driven by race: a fine aspiration but a far cry from reality.

Frequent contests of lower value are better than infrequent contests at a high value.

In an election that May, after encouragingly boisterous early debates in pubs and community halls, the movement selected and fielded seventeen independent candidates (united under a common set of values) to contest every ward seat in the town.

To read Williams's "Collected Poems" (over 680 pages, spanning more than 35 years) is therefore to behold a contest between "poetry" and its system of values and an opposing system, call it "anti-poetry".

Others contest the value of the check and balance in a two-sided system.