Sentence examples for of a contest between from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the prevailing argument running through the series is that of a contest between Coogan's north and Brydon's Wales.

It was more of a contest between the strength of the evidence and Diallo's weakness as a witness.

As a way of dramatising this, Mr Morris presents these ebbs and flows in the form of a contest between East and West.

As the bit develops, the audience throws out more obscure issues, and the show turns into something of a contest between the performer and crowd.

Yet these remote scraps of not so terra firma have become the scene of a contest between China, its neighbours, and the United States that would be laughable if it were not potentially so dangerous.

"First of all, he's not the nominee," Mr. Bush said of Mr. Kerry on "Meet the Press" on Sunday, when the moderator, Tim Russert, asked about the prospect of a contest between two Yale men.

If Trump is the Republican nominee and Hillary Clinton is chosen by the Democrats, the 2016 election may seem like a distorted, vulgar repetition of 1964: a contest between a Republican who scares and repels people, including Republicans, and a Democrat whom many voters, including Democrats, don't like or trust, leading to an outcome that may change the electoral map again.

The contest between James McGreevey, the mayor of Woodbridge, and Bret Schundler, the former mayor of Jersey City, is a contest between men with dramatically different world views.

The days of that being a contest between What's His Name and Who Cares would seem to be over.

At the moment, the conflict in Syria is a war of attrition, essentially a contest between the country's Sunni Muslim majority and its Alawite-dominated government and military.

It was an Oscar night tricked out as a meeting of Old Hollywood and New, a contest between the heart (King George VI) and the brain (Mark Zuckerberg), and most of all, a melding of old-school network tradition and Internet age connectivity.