Sentence examples for historical contest from inspiring English sources

For his part, McKaigue is putting the historical contest to one side as he approaches Sunday's decider.

(These points, I think, can explain why Hume is so cavalier about the famous missing shade of blue that seems to not be copied from experience i.e., because it is still an experiential idea).[7] In terms of the historical contest, Empiricism defeated Rationalism, and as inevitably happens in such victories, anti-Nativism triumphed over Nativism.

The spot on which you stand can be the locus of historical contests yet still seem comfortably nestled in a pastoral, courtly or regal setting.

It will also be – with apologies to Nick Clegg who has not yet selected his own historical alias – a contest of a man pretending to be Roosevelt against a man trying to be Baldwin.

The Economist's map on Kashmir – which must have received many more page views than had it not been declared contraband – contains nothing that contests historical facts or misrepresents ground reality.

In some respects the debate over what strategy Obama should now adopt in Afghanistan has become a debilitating contest of historical analogies and comparative case studies.

As for the picks of previous years, I'd be the last to contest the historical magnitude of Led Zeppelin or Bob Dylan.

The presence of Mr. Steele and Mr. Blackwell has added some historical resonance to a contest that is usually viewed as a matter of inside baseball.

Though they were hardly aware of it as the game went on and on (and on), the two teams, including a dozen future Hall of Famers, were involved in a contest of historical significance that went beyond its length.

To see what the opposition is up against, consider the 1990 general election, which was the one exception to UMNO's historical dominance, and a contest with many similarities to this one.

The primaries are clearly unrepresentative of the majority of Americans, and our two-party system has led to an unpopularity contest of historical proportions.