Sentence examples for contest of will from inspiring English sources

Finally, the end game has begun — a contest of will and tactics that has been coming for months.

Waite is most eloquent when he's probing the interior lives of the men locked in this contest of will and endurance.

By John Cassidy December 28 , 2012Finally, the end game has begun — a contest of will and tactics that has been coming for months.

Waite's modern western features drug smuggling in the Pacific Northwest and three men locked in a contest of will and endurance: a good man with a less-than-legal side job, a zealous deputy sheriff and a vicious killer.

The three lieutenants laughed and joked among themselves, clearly enjoying what seemed to them an amusing contest of will and wits between them and the silent, unmoving figure on the floor in front of them.

Harold Pinter's script humorlessly reduces the familiar 1972 mystery gag — about an actor who enters the lair of the writer whose wife he has stolen and gets caught in his trap — to an artificially grim and hopelessly implausible contest of will and game of shifting identities.

And so today the great contest of wills begins.

What follows is a ferocious contest of wills.

A contest of wills builds as they sail through many close shaves.

We had to be as resolute and unyielding in this contest of wills".

Democratic leaders and legislators continued to choose sides in the contest of wills.