Sentence examples for intense contests from inspiring English sources
"China and Brazil have very different interests and priorities, and within these countries there are intense contests between different approaches, reflecting domestic political dynamics," says the IDS bulletin China and Brazil in African Agriculture.
Behind the tedious struggle for legal advantage in Florida is an extraordinarily intense contest for public opinion.
They also cast votes in the far more intense contest for governorships in the nation's 36 states.
The DUP succeeded in winning back the Belfast East seat which saw the most intense contest of the 18 Northern Ireland seats, its candidate defeating Naomi Long of the moderate Alliance Party.
"Spring Forward" presents an unusual and welcome spectacle: two very fine actors, Ned Beatty and Liev Schreiber, engaged in an intense contest to see who can give the more understated performance.
Most of the jerseys represented an N.F.L. team other than the Giants or the Dolphins, the opponents for Sunday's game, giving the afternoon the feel of an international convention, not an intense contest between two particular teams.
Anne Driver London Charlotte Rogan's astonishing first novel The Lifeboat (Virago) concerns the intense contest for survival between two occupants of a single lifeboat – a strong-minded woman and a tough sailor.
The movement of science fiction away from the genre ghetto and into the literary mainstream isn't simply a matter of taste or style, but of survival in an ever more intense contest for the minds of audiences.
Gingrich's jab at Romney in the intense contest's last hours was a sharp contrast with his promises to stick to a positive message.
In prosperous times union salaries soared; so did the former amateur code's popularity, on the back of its more frequent and intense international contests.
"The invitation to violence arises because partisanship in its most intense forms contests the very basis of a political community," the political scientist Russell Muirhead has observed.
