Sentence examples for games of contract from inspiring English sources

In Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with JG Ballard, 1967-2008 (Fourth Estate £25) we learn of Ballard's enduring love of the south of France (an intoxicating mix of "garlic, Gauloises, shit and perfume"), Graham Greene, disused football stadiums and games of contract bridge.

His changes were incorporated into the game of Contract Bridge, which replaced Plafond in popularity in the 1930s.

In a game of contract bridge, four players, divided into two teams, are each dealt 13 playing cards.

Harold Stirling Vanderbilt was also notable as the inventor of the game of contract bridge and as the skilled yachtsman who won the America's Cup three times.

He bacame a strong auction bridge player and eagerly took up the new game of contract, introduced to the United States by Harold Vanderbilt in 1926.

Wilpon said he was trying to minimize distractions by waiting, in hopes that people would focus on games instead of contract talks.

This month, Frederick sent a letter to Rupert Murdoch expressing concern that Fox and its regional sports networks were preventing fans from seeing games "because of contract disputes between your company and satellite and cable carriers".

This paper studies a repeated game of contracting in International joint ventures (IJVs) on the basis of information asymmetries due to different cultural backgrounds.

Cure yourself of disease within three in-game days of contracting sanguinare vampiris.

Pujols is possibly facing the last game of his contract in this grand old baseball city after foul weather caused the sixth game of the World Series to be postponed until Thursday.

Promoted Brentford have re-opened talks with striker Clayton Donaldson, 30, who has scored 18 goals in 46 games but is out of contract in the summer.