Sentence examples for fatal contest from inspiring English sources
As Scott pursued his fatal contest with the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, Campbell and his men burrowed into an ice cave and waited out the six-month winter.
The unorthodox and ultimately fatal strategy of not aggressively contesting the early-voting states like Iowa and South Carolina prevented Giuliani from consolidating any significant national constituency that could now be re-directed toward McCain in his battle against Mitt Romney.
Gillard is now calling a leadership contest in an attempt to rid herself of this homme fatal once and for all – or die trying.
Though the drinks and food industry still hotly contests it, a scientific consensus is now emerging that fatal problems can be traced back to excessive sugar consumption.
In that contest, the charismatic Mr. Hunt begins way ahead but, especially after a near fatal accident at Nürburgring in 1976, Mr. Lauda sneaks up.
He wrote that a "fatal split in the Confederate psyche" precluded "a resolve that would have persevered in the contest after all the romance was gone".
On both occasions he kept his belief even as others were rapidly losing theirs; in both contests he found a way to rouse himself from slumps that in previous years would have become fatal tail-spins.
