Sentence examples for poor contest from inspiring English sources

The Jags claimed their third league win of the season over the visitors in a poor contest.

Yet it was a poor contest, a reminder that while élan and panache are French words, so are mediocre and ennui.

City was, after all, winning a wretchedly poor contest, 2-1, on a surface so poor that the Muscovites had painted it green to camouflage its muddy deficiency.

Even allowing for the notoriously poor contests served up by the sisters it is an insult.

What followed was a series of poor contests, watched by small crowds.

This was a good save, at least – but it might have been the poorest contest of the tournament.

Jimmy, who can't afford a lawyer, is too poor to contest his case in a family-court system that's tilted toward wealth.

Although some more recent studies have suggested that dietary categories may be poor predictors of contest competition among primates, to date there have been no broad, cross-taxa comparisons of rates of female female agonism in relation to diet.

But on Friday, amid a huge spending campaign in poor neighborhoods, the contest had narrowed to the point where several pollsters said the president might win an endorsement of his rule.

During this time they have been heavily criticized by surfers and fans alike for numerous reasons, among them making the scoring and ranking system too complicated, kowtowing to surf industry companies that sponsor contests, allowing heavily biased commentators and judges to influence contests, not financially compensating the surfers enough, and choosing poor locations for contests.

It was a spectacular way to begin the second phase of a tournament that had previously failed to ignite during a group stage blighted by one-sided contests, poor scheduling and bad weather.