Sentence examples for determining contest from inspiring English sources

The play was a fillip, not a filibuster, with the evening's main event remaining Jonny Gomes's three-run homer in the top of the sixth, which broke a 1 1 tie, and held up, guaranteeing that the teams, no matter who wins tonight, will return to Boston on Wednesday, for a sixth and then possibly a seventh and determining contest.

Despite the importance of experience in determining contest outcomes, patterns of selection did not change between rounds.

We measured several morphological traits, chosen for their importance in determining contest success in other lizards [31], [32]: body size (snout-vent length, SVL, to the nearest 0.1 mm), head depth (deepest point of head, in line with tympanum), jaw length (angle of the jaw to the tip of the snout) and body mass.

Male size (relative to his opponent) was overwhelmingly the most important factor determining contest outcome.

We find that male size relative to his opponent is far more important in determining contest outcome than any effects of age or social experience.

As residual reproductive value is likely to influence contest behavior via effects on motivation rather than fighting ability, these studies provide further, albeit indirect, evidence that age effects on contest behavior that result from variation in residual reproductive value may be weak when fighting ability plays a prominent role in determining contest outcome.

Further work is needed to investigate the factors that stimulate aggressive behaviour and determine contest resolution in E. nassaui, preferably with larger sample sizes than were possible in this study.

Empirical research shows that prior experience can be important in determining future contest behavior and outcomes.

Literature is not like a sport, in which rank can be determined by contest, nor is it an entity that can be weighed or measured like a handsome squash or a blue-ribbon pig.

Unlike the Penn Station telecast that was open to the sleepy-eyed masses, admittance to the Disney-spawned theme restaurant was determined by contest, in a joint promotion with WFAN.

Jim Messina, the campaign manager, is determined to contest as many states as possible, to avoid the trap he believes past Democratic campaigns fell into of pinning all their hopes on just one or two fiercely contested and fickle swing states.