Sentence examples for contested the world from inspiring English sources

Bayliss has had success with the Kolkata Knight Riders and the Sydney Sixers and Mahela Jayawardene, another addition, was part of Bayliss's Sri Lankan team which contested the World T20 final of 2012 in Colombo.

In 2011, though, Cape Blanco, trained by Aidan O'Brien and owned by Jim Hay, an associate of the Coolmore operation, contested the World Cup, and at this year's meeting, O'Brien saddled runners for core members of the syndicate.

To beat Sri Lanka and India - the two teams that contested the World Cup final - on our own turf is an unbelievable thing".

Edinburgh winger Lee Jones, who scored his first try against Les Bleus on his third Test appearance, added: "We've shown we can compete against the side which contested the World Cup final so we're in a good place going to Dublin.

Twelve teams contested the World Cup.

But when he contested the first World Championship match in 1886 against Johannes Zukertort, it became evident that Steinitz was playing on another level.

"Everyone looks at Barcelona and the majority of Spanish teams play a similar system as do a majority of Dutch teams and there was no coincidence that Spain and Holland contested the most recent World Cup final.

On their first overseas trip together Murray won the Under-12s final at the Orange Bowl in Miami, contested by the world's best young players.

It is contested by the world's best players - Sinclair, USA forward Abby Wambach, Japan's Homare Sawa and Brazil's Marta were all here.

Valbuena appeared in only one of the three matches France contested at the World Cup.

One of the featured matches was contested for the World Heavyweight Championship, in which Chris Benoit defended the title against Kane.