Sentence examples for decent contest from inspiring English sources

"I just hope it's a decent contest and not too controversial.

Yes, in the end, but this was the most enjoyable Calcutta Cup ride for years, a decent contest rather than another lop-sided nonevent.

Argentina's victory over West Germany in 1986 was a decent contest, although notable more as the apotheosis of the cult of Maradona than for the brilliance of the football.

After a series of Friday night stinkers, round seven finally offered a decent contest, with the clash between North Melbourne and a spirited Essendon in the balance until the final minutes.

The game itself was a decent contest, with Hull offering more reasons for cautious optimism about their prospects this season, and Lee Radford already shaping as a common-sense coaching appointment by Adam Pearson.

We dwelt for long enough last week on the folly of wasting the season launch with two games that ran the risk of being embarrassing as well as underwhelming, although thankfully the Crusaders capitalised on the levelling conditions to provide a decent contest for a remarkable five-figure crowd.

Post-Brown, it now has the time and the space to hold a thorough and decent leadership contest.

On a per-game basis, Williams is averaging just 12.2 points, 6.3 rebounds, and 1.7 assists through Atlanta's first six contests – decent but unexceptional marks across the board.

Walden made a decent start to the contest and a break of 108 in the fourth frame put him 3-1 up.

In the 64th game of a tournament that has stretched our imagination and at times bewildered our ability to know what is coming next, two very decent teams, the Netherlands and Spain, will contest the World Cup final of 2010.

In a Labour leadership contest of decent but seemingly bland candidates, Corbyn was the choice of many who said to themselves: none of them is going to win the election so I might as well vote for the one who will at least stand up properly against austerity and war.