Sentence examples for direct contest from inspiring English sources

Others wanted a direct contest.

The runoff round saw Yanukovich and Yushchenko in a direct contest.

By May 2008 Tymoshenko was engaged in a direct contest for power with President Yushchenko.

As taught by Ueshiba, it was so purely defensive an art that no direct contest between practitioners was possible.

At this stage I do see it as a direct contest between me and Nicole for the team leader position because of the nature of the course.

Indeed, the lines of fragmentation only begin here: beyond the increasing internal debate, al-Qaida and its local affiliates find themselves in direct contest with other, often more established Islamist groups with radically different worldviews and agendas, many of which now enjoy greater popularity because they are not so ready to spill the blood of their fellow Muslims.

Competition for mates can occur through a variety of direct contests, or indirectly through passively or actively attracting members of the opposite sex.

The reason for this is most likely that females feed more on dispersed and less defendable food sources during such periods (Kinnaird and O'Brien 2000) and thus engage in fewer direct contests.

"It was a directing contest".

Thinking differently is what led to LivePlanet's HBO hit "Project Greenlight," the Emmy-nominated documentary series that follows the winner of an online screenwriting and directing contest as he or she makes a film.

Therefore, in direct competition with the contest strategy the turn-taking strategy had a disadvantage.