Sentence examples for contested world from inspiring English sources

"Increasingly, it lives in a contested world.

Their players and England's players down the decades have contested World Cup elimination games, with their followers hyping their teams.

The company has wagered heavily on the Nook, whose e-readers and tablets compete against Amazon's best-selling Kindle devices in the hotly contested world of electronic books.

In the 500, Kim blazed ahead of the field from the starting gun and was never challenged, rare in the closely contested world of short-track.

In the last moment of a bitterly contested World Cup final, the English fly-half took delivery of the ball behind a ruck and dropped a goal to win the 2003 championship in Sydney.

It is the most hotly contested piece of land in the world.

There are contested public spaces around the world, where people are demonstrating in one direction or another.

In other words, for many years following the end of the Second World War, when the two superpowers [the U.S. and the Soviet Union] contested for world power, achieving a sort of balance of terror, China's main concern was its very survival, not least feeding its big population.

No heavyweight in the history of boxing has contested more world title fights than Wladimir Klitschko (27).

Smyslov understood chess more profoundly than his great rival Mikhail Botvinnik, against whom he contested three world championship matches with honours even.

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.