Stags, rams, and bulls use antlers or horns in contests of strength; a winning male usually secures more female mates.
"Only when everyone plays by the same rules can we avoid the mistakes of the past, like when countries challenged one another in contests of strength and will, with disastrous consequences for the region," Carter said.
By A. J. Liebling The New Yorker, July 8 , 1939P. 57 REPORTER AT LARGE about some of the wrestling exhibitions which take place at Ridgewood, L.I. Jack Pfefer conducts the matches, and makes no pretense at all that they are contests of strength and despite the decline in wrestling, had managed to still make money.
She did so in "Anthracite Fields," which won the Pulitzer Prize this year, and in "Steel Hammer" (2009), a work that distills the many folklore versions of John Henry — the legendary railroad steel driver who died after winning a contest of strength against a steam-powered hammer — into a compelling, unified image.
If we take for granted this "general principle of practical reasoning," why should we recognize the existence of any exclusionary reasons, which by definition prevail independently of any contest of strength?
As many experts have pointed out, Xi wants to pull South Korea away from the trilateral security regime of Seoul, Tokyo and Washington amid a contest of strength among China, the United States and Japan.
If the horse tries to pull the lead rope away by throwing his head about, let him have it, you're not going to win any contest of strength with a horse.
Since then, the 10-event contest of speed, strength and agility has been the benchmark of track-and-field supremacy.
Terrorism, as has been seen, is the weapon of those who are prepared to use violence but who believe that they would lose any contest of sheer strength.
But despite all the psychological and racial dimensions of the Ali-Frazier fights in the seventies, I now see that struggle on an almost purely individual level, as a pure contest of inner strength, athleticism, and will.
In a contest of political strength between the mayor and the City Council speaker, the Council put off a vote on whether to override a mayoral veto of a bill that would retain a system in which the city pays candidates $4 for every $1 they raise in small campaign contributions.
