Sentence examples for noble contest from inspiring English sources

Is the Super Bowl, that destination which is so distant from both of our toiling franchises, a more noble contest than this one?

So entirely accurate have the spoilers to World Wrestling Entertainment's noble contests proved that the WWE has been moved to issue a statement: "We may have a modern-day Nostradamus on our hands," this runs.

But in 1052 the king and Geoffrey Martel made common cause against William at the same time as some Norman nobles began to contest William's increasing power.

In honor of that noble sea battle, this week's contest features four works of historical fiction.

Pete is Pete Jones, the winner of an Internet screenwriting contest dreamed up by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck with the noble intention of giving a worthy outsider a chance to direct his own movie, which Miramax would distribute.

An arguably noble endeavor, but it has degenerated into a "pissing contest" that has lost sight of what the consumer really needs, according to Roger Kay of International Data Corp.

The struggle for the future of the bottom billion is not a contest between an evil rich world and a noble poor world.

The heated reactions to such willfully repellent fiction can be easily caricatured as a shallow moral contest, with the decency brigade squaring off against the noble forces of art.

She won the contest, and Admiral Edward Howard described her enthusiastically as "the noblest ship of sayle [of any] gret ship, at this howr, that I trow [believe] be in Cristendom".

The counsel to play as if it weren't a scorekeeping contest, and to bring one's most personal inspiration to the fore, is noble but difficult to follow.

He speaks expansively of a contest that he hopes will be less overtly commercial than previous Olympics, restoring the principle of noble, amateur competition and promoting equality between different races, cultures and religions.