Sentence examples for contests of will from inspiring English sources

To describe Taylor's novels as primarily contests of will between women and the world makes her sound more polemical than she actually is.

The lesson: The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, like all wars, were contests of will that unleashed dynamics that made future events impossible to predict.

Her interrogations were contests of will, with Mrs. Cheng refusing to confess or responding with quotes from Mao's "Little Red Book". Her captors responded with beatings.

Children should be offered a variety of healthful foods and healthful snacks, and mealtimes should be enjoyable experiences, not battlegrounds or contests of will.

He tears up staid old Moscow in a car chase and turns routine C.I.A. procedural stuff — people looking at computer screens and barking code names and other gibberish at each other — into nerve-racking contests of will.

He tears up staid old Moscow in a car chase and turns routine C.I.A. procedural stuff people looking at computer screens and barking code names and other gibberish at each other into nerve-racking contests of will.

Finally, the end game has begun — a contest of will and tactics that has been coming for months.

Waite is most eloquent when he's probing the interior lives of the men locked in this contest of will and endurance.

By John Cassidy December 28 , 2012Finally, the end game has begun — a contest of will and tactics that has been coming for months.

Waite's modern western features drug smuggling in the Pacific Northwest and three men locked in a contest of will and endurance: a good man with a less-than-legal side job, a zealous deputy sheriff and a vicious killer.

The three lieutenants laughed and joked among themselves, clearly enjoying what seemed to them an amusing contest of will and wits between them and the silent, unmoving figure on the floor in front of them.