Sentence examples for riveting battle from inspiring English sources

And when Woods opened the year with a thrilling victory at the Mercedes Championships, he had to beat Els in a riveting battle that lasted until the second hole of sudden death.

Radwanska survived a riveting battle with sixth-seeded Li Na, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-1.

And for the third consecutive year, the P.G.A. Championship was a riveting battle, this one coming down to the drama at No. 18. Mickelson had a chance to tie Toms with a birdie on No. 18, but he barely missed his birdie putt attempt from 25 feet, leaving it less than a foot short.

After the riveting impeachment battle and the similarly hand-to-hand partisan warfare of the after-election, Americans are more addicted to combative entertainment than ever.

In his riveting memoir about battling depression, "Darkness Visible," William Styron wrote that the young child who loses a parent to death can be vulnerable to "incomplete mourning" and thus unable to "achieve the catharsis of grief".

[World Business, Section W.] Hershey Promotes Its Flagship Bar After the end of a bitter takeover battle that riveted Wall Street, Hershey Foods is talking to Main Street with a drastically different campaign for its flagship product.

DAYS after the end of a bitter takeover battle that riveted Wall Street, Hershey Foods is drastically changing how it talks to Main Street, introducing ads asserting that it's the chocolate, stupid.

Mr. McCain made his remarks on a day when he was competing for attention in a state riveted by the primary battle between Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama — timing that could suggest he did not want the speech to draw notice among moderate Democrats and independents who would find his embrace of conservative judges distasteful, and whom he is wooing for November.

Four years later, Republicans were riveted by the televised nomination battle between Dwight Eisenhower and Robert Taft.

The scene was repeated four years later when the confirmation battle over Clarence Thomas riveted the nation and resulted in his confirmation.

The scandalous election of 1824, much like the Bush-Gore battle in 2000, riveted the nation's attention on the casting and counting of votes.