Sentence examples for contests of this from inspiring English sources

We are oddly reluctant even to name them as opponents – often the only opponents – in political contests of this kind.

CHICAGO — Unfolding across a stretch of this city's South Side is one of the most peculiar political contests of this election season: a race in which the front-runner has not appeared in public since early June.

Ghana, too, have a local coach and James Kwesi Appiah deserved all the plaudits for the way his team played so vibrantly against Germany in one of the most thrilling contests of this World Cup.

The race had been decided by a scant 3,117 votes out of more than 1.3 million cast and was one of the last unfinished contests of this month's election.

Mr. Romney's trip west also spotlights what is the lost contest of this early stretch of presidential politicking, the Nevada Republican caucus, also on Saturday.

When the United States Open draw showed Murray in the same half as Federer, it was easy to consider their summer rubber match the most enticing contest of this tournament.

And deservedly so, too, for they produced some marvellous running rugby that was reminiscent of the latter stages of their World Cup campaign in Australia last year and the game against Scotland in the first contest of this Six Nations championship.

By our standards, they are now anachronistic, but in countries where there has not been the same type of progress, to win a beauty contest of this stature is a big deal.

If Northrop were to depart the field, that could leave Lockheed Martin as the only American company with the ability to design combat planes, and thus the biggest winner of the three.Usually in a contest of this kind, particularly this close to its end, a clear favourite emerges.

I have always felt that for a contest of this nature to be honest and ethical, the judges must be prepared to devote their time to give each entrant a full "hearing," otherwise the contest would be a sham.

When a religious community feels that a certain kind of scholarship undermines its truth claims, the proper response is critical inquiry and, when justified, a vigorous contesting of this scholarship with reasoned argument and alternative readings.