Sentence examples for cup giving from inspiring English sources

LIFT FOR ANGOLA BASKETBALL Angola, the African men's basketball champion, dispatched Serbia, 68-60, to win the Stankovic Cup, giving it a boost ahead of the Olympics.

But the team has qualified for a coming World Cup, giving students something to rally around and bringing some recognition to the school, which is part of the City University of New York.

He had just scored a tiny, war-ravaged country's first goal at the World Cup, giving a sliver of lustre to the name of a nation that the planet's media had been depicting as entirely blood-drenched, but he was asked to show some decorum.

The gentlest birdie putt of the day rolled down into the cup, giving him a four-stroke lead over an opponent who, what ever he could muster in terms of tenacity, was never able to locate significant gaps in his Montgomerie's armour.

"If we stretch the definition of "major" to include the Olympic football tournament," proposes James Straughan, "we can include the 1984 Olympics and USA 94 World Cup, giving us Dunga (Brazil's captain in the latter), Andreas Brehme (who played his final game for Germany at the latter), Franco Baresi and Roger Milla, to name but a few".

Well, Ramos and Berbatov have gone and all the new manager, Harry Redknapp, can console himself with is that as of Thursday night, 'the boys of White Hart Lane' are no longer involved in that pesky Uefa Cup, giving him even more time to concentrate on staving off relegation.

The 2002 World Cup gave Kahn his first real opportunity on the world stage.

The location of this year's Street Child World Cup gives the event added relevance.

"The World Cup gives us more visibility," said one striking teacher, Jorge Luiz Monteiro.

Certainly, the World Cup gave the country a hedge against the global recession, and has produced a temporary growth spurt.

She also won the Golfstat Cup, given to the collegiate player with the lowest scoring average (71.36).