Sentence examples for old contest from inspiring English sources

In the west the old contest for northern Mesopotamia with the fortified cities of Carrhae, Nisibis, and Edessa continued.

There was an intelligibility if not a friendly intimacy in the old contest, one between two large, idealistic, rough-mannered nations seeking to maintain their spheres of influence short of tripping nuclear war.

Kevin Mitchell Mickelson hits out at Watson after defeat Andy Bull Mickelsonn exchanges driver for the knife How about making the Ryder Cup a triennial event rather than a biennial one, if only to give the top handful of American players a break and perhaps make the old contest a bit more competitive.

In fact, when an announcer asked the 41 year old contest winner what he thought of his perfect performance, the legendary wave rider all but brushed it off.

The 10 standard tricks from the old contests are as dated as quill pens.

Intel took over the 58-year-old contest from Westinghouse in 1998.

For, in the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval".

They were shopping for cricketers to play for their respective teams in the Indian Premier League (IPL), a three-year-old contest that has transformed India's favourite game and transfixed the country.

The winner of the mile two-year-old contest on the card was this year's Classic and mile superstar Frankel; the half-length runner-up was Nathaniel, winner of last month's King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

The two-year-old contest, the brainchild of Tanya Steel, editor of the food Web site Epicurious, is part of Mrs. Obama's continuing agenda to improve the eating habits of America's children.

Worse, in the Williamsburg bee, a five-year-old contest for adults held every other Monday, the words tend to be hard, like "saccharide" and "calefactory," not exactly the stuff of conversation.