Sentence examples for contest the line from inspiring English sources

Set in a country-house hotel, where a motivational selling course is taking place, the film follows the complicated lives of a cast of crooks, conmen and casualties as they contest the line between ambition and amorality.

Ms. Segal has a history of contesting the lines between public and private space.

De Gaulle was outraged when the Bonn Minister of Foreign Affairs recently told his French counterpart, M. Couve de Murville, that the Federal Germans in their election propaganda will contest the Oder-Neisse line, drawn in the Allied peace treaty as the German-Polish border.

This crash left only a few riders to contest the sprint to the line, with the chief beneficiaries being Sacha Modolo and Peter Sagan.

Corresponding to the two central premises, there are two ways to contest this line of reasoning.

Eight years ago I lined up with Canada on the start line in Athens to contest the men's four final against the soon to be knighted Matt Pinsent and his team-mates.

There are a number of ways in which one might contest this line of argument (Fine 2010; Wellman and Cole 2011).

In between apparently snorting lines and some seemingly sexy games, he also gave a damning take on the Labour leadership contest, describing the line up as "an absolutely hopeless set of choices".

The two teams meet again in today's National Football Conference title game, and this time it is not just a regular-season contest on the line, but a trip to the Super Bowl.

For the Nets, there will occasionally be games like Tuesday night's 108-93 loss to the San Antonio Spurs, contests that toe the line between a test and tutelage.

Imagine a contest along the lines just sketched between a union-backed Brown and, say, John Reid, and you get the general idea.