Sentence examples for fierce contests from inspiring English sources

Previous amnesties did not come during fierce contests for power, but only after the dust had settled.

And as we've already seen, calls for change may give way, in some cases, to fierce contests for power.

Pat took refuge in playing basketball, and his fierce contests at home against his father were chronicled memorably in The Great Santini.

Milton Keynes remains a bitter loser in these fierce contests, even if the status is purely honorific with no additional powers attached to it.

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah is where the Tea Party slew one of its first giants, toppling a three-term Republican senator in a 2010 electoral coup that scrambled party politics and heralded a litany of fierce contests between establishment Republicans and conservative upstarts.

The leading member of the group was Francis Parkman, who, in a series of books (1851 92), wrote as a historian of the fierce contests between France and England that marked the advance of the American frontier and vividly recorded his own Western travels in The Oregon Trail (1849).

Clark is looking forward to what could be a fierce contest.

Palm Beach, who looked so assured in the first half, are suddenly drawn into a fierce contest.

A fierce contest refused to subside thereafter, but Stockport held out to claim the spoils.

But Gove is likely to face a fierce contest from another Brexit-supporting MP.

Ireland creaked in the first half but were competitive in a tight, fierce contest.