Sentence examples for of fierce contests from inspiring English sources

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah is where the Tea Party slew one of its first giants, toppling a three-term Republican senator in a 2010 electoral coup that scrambled party politics and heralded a litany of fierce contests between establishment Republicans and conservative upstarts.

And as we've already seen, calls for change may give way, in some cases, to fierce contests for power.

The leading member of the group was Francis Parkman, who, in a series of books (1851 92), wrote as a historian of the fierce contests between France and England that marked the advance of the American frontier and vividly recorded his own Western travels in The Oregon Trail (1849).

It's the smell of fierce competition.

It is a symbol of the promise and peril of a fierce contest under way in south Asia.

Previous amnesties did not come during fierce contests for power, but only after the dust had settled.

The increasingly fierce contests for money are America's new electoral reality, the one the Supreme Court let loose on the land with its 2010 Citizens United decision that freed the voice of money to overwhelm the many voices of this country.

6 Matt Dawson Carries 7, Turnovers 2, Tackles 2, Success 100%, Pens conceded 1 Helped England gain the initiative after the break, but was forced to hurry by France's fierce contesting of the breakdown.

The choice was deliberate, giving him a chance to salute, as he put it, "blue-collar culture" and muscular industriousness, the values he has placed at the heart of his campaign.As French voters prepare to go to the polls on April 22nd for the first round of their two-stage presidential election, the campaign has strayed from the specifics of policy to a fierce contest over values and character.

What follows is a fierce contest between the claims of home and those of the children's centre as represented by its suavely articulate founder, Srinivas.

C. 1033 1079 Donald Bane, also spelled Donaldbane, or Donalbane, Bane also spelled Ban or Bain (born c. 1033 died after 1097) king of Scotland from November 1093 to May 1094 and from November 1094 to October 1097, son of Duncan I. Upon the death of his brother Malcolm III Canmore (1093) there was a fierce contest for the crown.