Sentence examples for poor contests from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

To raise awareness of the benefits of handwashing with soap – and the dangers of diarrhoeal disease and pneumonia, which can be caused by poor hygiene – drawing contests, games and events have been organized for schoolchildren in 34 Afghan provinces today.

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.