Sentence examples for contested rivalry from inspiring English sources

And Ron Howard was working on a movie, scheduled for wide release next fall, about the momentous 1976 Formula One season, with its fiercely contested rivalry between the carousing English lothario James Hunt and the Austrian Niki Lauda.

After nearly a month of blowouts and less-than-appealing matchups, "Sunday Night Football" on NBC returned to form on Sunday in a hotly contested rivalry game in which the Baltimore Ravens defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers, 23-20, with a touchdown in the final seconds.

Some of these games are regularly contested rivalry games.

Finding any available seat for this game has become the real challenge in the fewer than 30 years the rivalry has been contested on the court.

This is it!" The Florida-Florida State game is one of many traditional geographic rivalries to be contested in college football on Saturday.

How can someone with such a retiring manner lead an organization undergoing a hotly contested reformation, riddled with regional rivalries and subject to competing demands from the great powers and the nations of the developing world?

Several teams compete annually for secondary MLS rivalry cups that are typically contested by two teams, usually geographic rivals (e.g., New York vs D.C).

They have a fierce rivalry with M23 neighbours Brighton & Hove Albion, with whom they have contested the M23 derby 98 times and also enjoy a strong rivalry with fellow South London team Millwall.

Kenya may be one of the most developed and powerful countries in Africa, known for its safaris and historically close to the West, but its politics have been bedeviled by corruption, impunity and bitter ethnic rivalries, often exploding into widespread violence during contested elections.

One of the game's top rivalries is The Ashes series between England and Australia, contested since 1882.

No rivalry in world cricket is more consistently closely contested.