Sentence examples for modern contest from inspiring English sources

As for the modern contest of Israeli and Palestinian nationalisms, its seeds were sown by imperial British involvement in the Arab world, which has also shaped many of the borders and conflicts that endure to this day in Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

The modern contest has posed six scientific conundrums, including solving paralysis and ensuring everyone has access to clean water.

(Some of the modern contests involved demonstrating CPR, reciting Natalie Merchant lyrics in poetic form and doing aerobics).

Emerging from modern American comedy is a bold new contest which pits scientific obnoxiousness against all simpler practices.

Under the pitiless scrutiny of a modern democratic contest, in which every person a politician meets is a paparazzo and videographer, their biggest flaws come out eventually, and in ways that can upend a contest, from one moment to the next.There is a lot that is pretty startling about an American presidential election.

First prize in the Modern competition (the day before there was a Latin-American contest) was won by a British couple, Richard & Janet Gleave.

We pretend that meritocracies our favored word for modern competitions are contests of equals.

This ancient mnemonic device was used by orators in Greece and Rome, and is still a trade secret of modern memory-contest champions.

Phillips's longstanding debate with Nielsen is commonly portrayed as a modern-day contest between faith and reason, but Phillips never regarded it that way himself.

While tall tales and negative hyperbole about the other guy have always had a role in American politics (read Founding Brothers) our modern mudslinging contests reach far broader audiences than ever before, arguably with more pernicious results when the culture of deceit appears to be not only pervasive, but quite acceptable as a way of doing business.

NBC will change the application process for the "Today" show's "Modern Day Wedding Contest" so that same-sex couples are permitted to participate, the network said Thursday.