Sentence examples for its contest with from inspiring English sources

It was undefeated in five matches, failing to win when its contest with India was washed out when it was threatening to build a huge total.

At the height of the cold war, the West was so single-minded in its contest with the Soviet Union that it never stopped to consider what baby alligators it might be nurturing in the Islamic world, especially in the anti-Soviet coalition in Afghanistan.

PROFILE of Venice, its contest with the Holy See over the Republic's leaning toward Protestantism, about interdicts & bans imposed on Venice by various Popes.

Because everyone wants their own stake in him.Mr Hitchens takes us through Orwell's anti-colonialism ("unswerving"), his Englishness (deep), his view of America (in its contest with Russia strongly for, but culturally hostile); and his attitude to women (confused).

By Mary McCarthy The New Yorker, July 14 , 1956P. 29 PROFILE of Venice, its contest with the Holy See over the Republic's leaning toward Protestantism, about interdicts & bans imposed on Venice by various Popes.

From China's perspective, the uneasy relationship with North Korea is both an element in its contest with the United States and its allies in the region and a source of concern over the costs of economic and diplomatic support for the isolated regime in Pyongyang.

In general, though, the Supreme Court has come down on the side of the govt. in its contests with individual citizens over their inalienable rights, and has often weakened and even perverted the clearest commands of the Constitution.

China's surge in military spending gains headlines, partly because of the ominous implications regarding its regional contest with Japan, but it's the deeper structures of military spending in general that are far more compelling.

Arizona is by all odds favored over Arizona State, if Arizona State Teachers can get by Colorado, which is bound to suffer a letdown after its traditional grudge match against Colorado State, which in any event has been pointing toward its crucial contest with Utah State Aggies.

In the long years of the Cold War, the West routinely buttressed unsavory regimes from Africa to Asia in its ideological contest with the Soviet Union.

Brown did not simply plead with the University of Kentucky to resume its annual contest with the University of Louisville, a rivalry that seemed natural for two programs that are practically neighbors and rich in basketball history.