Sentence examples for ongoing contest between from inspiring English sources

To cynics, Apec is a talking shop, while Asean is an arena for an ongoing contest between China and Japan, with India on the side.

THE terrorist shootings in Denmark are the latest skirmish in Europe's ongoing contest between freedom of expression and radical Islamists, and as with January's attacks in Paris, they targeted both the press and the Jewish community.

As for the ultimate fate of this character, that appears to be contingent on the outcome of an ongoing contest between a red-state ideology of extreme individualism, preached and practiced by the city's rich white conservatives, and the civic necessities of a more diverse metropolis.

(3) As was mentioned earlier, he believes that human beings' capacities for discerning the truth are very limited and that it is through, and only through, an ongoing contest between opposing viewpoints that the cause of truth gets advanced.

The title will not be decided when Celtic host Aberdeen on Sunday but the nature of the ongoing contest between the two sides at the top of the table, along with the limits and the extent of their ambitions, will be shaped by events at Celtic Park.

(3) Also, he develops a more original variant of that idea on the socio-historical plane: analogously, the way for humankind as a whole to attain the elusive goal of truth is through an ongoing contest between opposing positions, in the course of which the best ones will eventually win out (this idea anticipates, and inspired, a central thesis of J.S. Mill's On Liberty).

As the detention in international water was taking place, the executive rushed through Parliament the Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014, which continues to attest to the ongoing contest of power between the executive and the judiciary.

Many people refer to this ongoing contest as an arms race, with growing arsenals on both sides.

Behind all this intra-Muslim animosity, many will argue, is the ongoing geopolitical contest between Saudi Arabia and Iran, respectively guardians of Sunni and Shia orthodoxy, and rivals for control of the Gulf.

Each approach has characteristic strengths and weaknesses; the long-running contest between them is ongoing.

The contest between Austin and Harrison was an ongoing spat, between one of the smallest players on the Lions team and the biggest bloke in Australian rugby.