Sentence examples for decisive contests from inspiring English sources

The manager retains faith in his players' ability to prevail against opponents backed by a vociferous visiting support, but with only pride to play for, but conceded he is "a worrier" before decisive contests such as this.

His stat lines in the decisive contests were preposterous: 41-16-7-3-3 in Game 5, 41-8-11-4-3 in Game 6, 27-11-11-2-3 in Sunday's clincher – only the third triple-double ever in Game 7 of the finals.

The strategy hinges on Ohio and Florida, which are Tuesday's two most decisive contests.

Williams had two goals and five points in the three decisive contests and 25 points overall, including the overtime winner against the Rangers in the first game of the Cup Final.

And in another decisive contest, Bubba Watson and Louis Oosthuizen - who contested a play-off for the 2012 Masters - were all square after 16.

The third & decisive contest will be upon him in the spring of 1967 when the legislative election is held.

They have become giants warily circling each other in what could be the decisive contest of the 21st century.

In many countries, once the old order has been banished, the battle for women's rights is becoming the decisive contest between prejudice and democracy.

He and his crewmen, all of whom survived, were among 42 members of the Army Air Forces awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for valor in the Battle of Midway, which was considered the decisive contest for control of the Pacific in World War II.

When the expedition landed at York Factory, they found some of the leading North-West partners prisoners there, and learnt that both companies were arming to the extent of their means for a decisive contest next summer.

The Democrats' suit to contest the vote in Florida may have become the do-or-die battle in the legal war for the presidency, turning a Florida county court case into a decisive contest of legal strategies.