Sentence examples for contests fought from inspiring English sources

After 16 days of adrenalin and delight, of contests fought and won, of teary triumphs and devastating defeat, the Games of London 2012 are abruptly at a close.

Ascot stages the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup, a novelty four-cornered jockeys' points contest fought over six handicaps of various distances, with a draw for mounts.

Democrats staged the vote to press their advantage coming out of their victory on Tuesday in the contest, fought in large part over Medicare, for a House seat in upstate New York that had long been in Republican hands.

And, although religion is never entirely absent from Islam's foremost democracy, this has been a contest fought overwhelmingly over secular issues.Yet the country's democracy is still young.

Nor that the candidate himself had no plans to appear anywhere near it before Tuesday's primary, a contest fought in recent days with a fierceness that has few parallels in the state's political history.

Roberts, the author of several books of English history, maintains the tension in his narrative by suggesting that if the war had been a purely military rather than a political contest, fought without errors on the German side, then the Germans might have won.

Finally, on February 5th, the presumed finale: some 20 states will hold their primaries and caucuses a contest fought out through television advertising (a function of money-raising skills) and get-out-the-vote operations (a sure test of organisational ability).

Campaign aides said they could not recall a contest fought against such an uncertain and unsettling backdrop since 1968, when Richard M. Nixon and Hubert H. Humphrey battled as an increasingly bloody war was being waged in Vietnam, polarizing Americans at home.

The 2020 race will be the first presidential contest fought on this changed political landscape, with all of the intense scrutiny that a presidential campaign entails.

How it could come to pass that Republicans would best Democrats in a contest fought on such a liberal playing field says much about our political system, in which elections often serve as a referendum on the direction of the country more than a choice between competing visions.

Judo contests are fought on a mat ('tatami') which measures 14m x 14m, with a smaller contest area of 10m x 10m marked inside it.