Sentence examples for high-stakes contest from inspiring English sources

But the 19-year-old harbours no fear about breaking down during the high-stakes contest.

But the high-stakes contest can also motivate more petty forms of personal betrayal.

The other high-stakes contest going on in the sports universe involves the various conference basketball tournaments, which are not only producing N.C.A.A. tournament contestants, but providing a welcome distraction to the drone of conference realignment news.

Steven Roth's hopes of establishing a beachhead on the West Coast were dashed earlier this year when he lost the high-stakes contest to acquire Equity Office Properties and its nationwide portfolio of prime office buildings to the Blackstone Group, a private equity firm.

Indeed, the high-stakes contest for Boeing has stirred not only the pride of the competitor cities, it has also created a sideshow to the effort to find a suitable home for Boeing and wrest tax breaks, subsidies and other concessions out of the process.

"This is a high-stakes contest.

TALLAHASSEE — One week after Election Day, high-stakes contests in Florida and Georgia remained mired in uncertainty amid expanding legal fights and political wrangling that could further prolong the counting of ballots.

As the competing calls for unity suggest, the Republican Party's 2016 contest is far from settled a week before high-stakes contests in Florida and Ohio that could finish off home-state candidates Marco Rubio and John Kasich or resurrect their anemic candidacies.

Miller, who went on to design advanced engines used in the Indianapolis 500 and other high-stakes contests, died of brain cancer March 3 at his Costa Mesa home, his wife Lisa Gustafson said.

To an outsider, it's a high stakes contest between two top-ranked teams in the top 5.

Group One races are the highest stakes contests in Europe, as certified by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities, and are subject to age and gender restrictions.