It is supposed to be a psychological "contest," from which "the prison authority must emerge the victor".
This incident took up more than five minutes of the debate and was a strange thing to watch – a sign that this will be a fascinating psychological contest, as well as a political one.
The battle of wits begins.....tense and humorous by turns....an intellectual and psychological contest worthy of the gods.
Hendry led 4-2, 75-0 but Selby, assisted by two profitable snookers and a free ball, stole that frame and, as the psychological balance of the contest shifted significantly, scored heavily, making breaks of 96, 117 and 99 in qualifying to play O'Sullivan with a semi-final place at stake.
England today dealt a huge psychological blow /lost in a meaningless contest to the tottering/marginally improved Australians.
The greatest irony of America's separatist history, Malcomson argues, is the fact that "the racial contest was over ideological or psychological materials that were remarkably similar and in many ways identical".
And when it comes to younger ages, are the French right that sexualizing young girls in order to place them in beauty contests is detrimental to their psychological health?
"The Pages" is, among other things, an exploration of these different ways of thinking, a kind of contest between the philosophical and the psychological.
Being an extension of politics and thus about the consolidation of gains leading to a sustainable and lasting political outcome, war is ultimately a contest of wills and fundamentally as psychological as it is physical.
As the momentum lurched between the two men, the contest looked to be as much a psychological battle as a game of tennis.
This study adds to our knowledge of the relationship between sales force attitudes for sales contests and intention to pursue the contest by exploring the effects of business type, demographic, and psychological variables on this relationship.
