Sentence examples for knowledge battle from inspiring English sources

Since 1995 the annual fundraising evening, originally set up by the writer John Mortimer and his wife Penelope to support a children's charity, has pitted actors, politicians, bestselling novelists and media stars against each other in a public general knowledge battle.

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Kenan Malik, British author of Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate, takes it further in his essay "Who Owns Knowledge": "The battle over the bones is also a battle between those who believe in the possibility of universal knowledge and those who view truth as culturally constrained".

Yet even with that knowledge, the battles rarely failed to evoke the sense that I was embodying an epic hero, hiding behind a column like Perseus dodging Medusa, or riding a slithering sea dragon like Sinbad.

That may be, but many of the disabled folk living near the L.O.C. also lack the means or knowledge to fight a legal battle.

Devised with the knowledge that engagement ranges between battle fleets was growing greater as main battery sizes increased, the system moved away from previous designs that used heavy, medium, and light armor, in favor of using only heavy armor to protect vital areas on the ship.

Go ahead and know thyself, but be warned: such knowledge means that battle has commenced.

When this is realised, the oft-repeated criticism, that he does not greatly add to our knowledge of the battle, falls to the ground.

All the media reports have said (with an alarming degree of authority for people with no actual knowledge) that Williams' battles with depression led to his apparent suicide.

Washington's curiosity about the uncharted Virginia territory may have given him somewhat of a tactical advantage––he had explored the area and had prior knowledge before the battles commenced.

If this is a battle for knowledge, we have to redefine terms".