Sentence examples for lesser contests from inspiring English sources

The main match was preceded by five nights of lesser contests.

He gets such a buzz from the challenge of pitting his intelligence against Djokovic, Nadal and Roger Federer that lesser contests sometimes drain him of his focus and, in a twinkling, he can be flirting with defeat by someone he should be beating in straight sets.

Once a rising star in French politics, she ran for and lost the presidency in 2007, after which she lost a succession of other lesser political contests.

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Calgary Herald columnist George Johnson has used the phrase "banana peel" games to describe these contests against lesser lights.

Yes, he had to pit his laser printer against lesser ideas in the contest.

Woodfox was allowed to plead "no contest" to lesser charges, which resulted in his immediate release.

Woodfox in turn pleaded no contest to lesser charges of manslaughter and aggravated burglary.

Two defendants have pleaded no contest to lesser charges of misdemeanor hazing in the beating of a fellow Florida A&M University band member.

Seven other white men pleaded guilty or no contest to lesser charges in Ms. Allen's killing, and former Mayor Charlie Robertson was acquitted.

The place where outside electioneering is a bigger problem is in the City Council races, where smaller-bore contests among lesser-known candidates have been swamped by the spending of one group, with the vaguely positive, positively vague name Jobs for New York.