Sentence examples for controlled contest from inspiring English sources

The international media, analysts and even Western government officials had dismissed the election in advance as a farce, with the outcome to be determined by only one man — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — or saw it as a tightly controlled contest among a half-dozen handpicked, indistinguishable candidates servile to the supreme leader's wishes.

He was the first farmer in a controlled contest to exceed 400 bushels an acre, achieving 405 in 2001 and 442 the next year.

The Galaxy controlled the contest, with their dominance ultimately reflected in the scoreline.

Victory, who completed more than double Perth's passes, controlled the contest after the break but couldn't put the match to bed.

They dominated in the scrum, controlled the contest for possession after tackles and forced England into conceding a stream of penalties.

The final scoreline perhaps even flattered the Bundesliga team, given the hosts controlled the contest from the outset as Guardiola's bold but risky tactics gifted plenty of opportunities to Barca's deadly front line.

Following a thigh injury Paul Pogba was kept on the bench and whether he was fit to start was moot and his absence would prove telling as Fellaini and Nemanja Matic never controlled the contest.

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Paul Scholes and Roy Keane were the last United midfielders who could control the contest as Schweinsteiger hopes to.

He has built teams in that period, always on the principle that the side that can pass the ball most accurately controls the contest.

He argues that because Mr. Gore can easily match him in spending and has the support of most of Iowa's top Democrats and labor leaders, with access to the organizing machinery they control, the contest already is lopsided.