Sentence examples for featherweight from inspiring English sources

Another man who shone here was Lee Selby, who put in an impressive display to win the IBF featherweight title from the Russian Evgeny Gradovich via a unanimous points decision.

It hardly inspires confidence that the prime minister is in charge of the commission overseeing elections in April.Several of Algeria's 40-odd mostly featherweight opposition parties have said they will boycott the poll.

Etched into tiny skeletal structures that would be impossible to form with metal, it becomes the featherweight heart of a mechanism that can run at a far higher frequency (speed), which means greater accuracy.

Casting the net Summers's troubles Profitless gamble No featherweight ReprintsWhatever the exact numbers, the ten-year adding-up approach creates the false impression that the surplus is permanent.

Having to write programs that could fit within the featherweight machine's one kilobyte of RAM demanded serious thought.

Enfeebled by emergency laws that preclude normal political activity, the country's 15 featherweight legal opposition parties failed to gain a dozen seats between them.Oddly, that has not prevented the government from continuing to hound them.

Several other factions face similar, if non-violent, feuds: no fewer than 11 pretenders lay claim to the chairmanship of the featherweight New Young Egypt Party.The fragility of Egyptian democracy reflects the fact that party life was kick-started by decree in the 1970s, after 25 years in which all opposition parties were banned.

Hikers, for example, take the survivalist approach with featherweight tents and minimal equipment.

Thereafter, Olivares fought as a featherweight.

He took possession of the vacant WBC featherweight title in September 1974 with a 9th-round technical knockout against Alfredo Marcano, and in December 1982 he won a 15-round unanimous decision against champion Rafael ("Bazooka") Limón of Mexico to claim the WBC super featherweight belt.

Albert Griffiths, who fought under the ring name Young Griffo, captured the world featherweight title in 1890, which made him Australia's first native-born world champion.