Sentence examples for rough contest from inspiring English sources

Assuming Mr Cheney stays and he said on Tuesday that the president had asked him to run again he will soon join Mr Bush in gearing up for an unusually rough contest.

But many Democrats, while hoping for a speedy, relatively amicable resolution, are bracing for a rough contest that could last a good while.

Instead, Team USA insisted this was exactly the kind of challenge it needed with its first Olympic basketball game less than a week away: a rough, close contest that Coach Mike Krzyzewski called "our first real international game" and a "great game for us".

Kids today are coddled, we were told, and when they get to college, they fail to respect the rough and tumble contest of ideas that middle-aged alumni remember as being part of their own college experience.

Though the contest got rough at times, it was all for a good cause: to promote Mrs. Obama's "Let's Move" initiative, which encourages healthy eating and physical fitness for America's kids.

Yet even world heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano, whose own roughhouse tactics were legendary, called the contest "the roughest, dirtiest fight I have ever seen".

The number of Republicans questioned in the Times poll was too small to present more than a rough indication of how that contest is shaping up.

While it is hardly unusual for political contests to get rough, it rarely happens this early.

He has deliberately tried to avoid the rough-and-tumble of the contest so far, hoping that doing so will distinguish him from this increasingly unruly pack.

The contest was one of the roughest in the general election, and Mr Woolas squeaked home over Mr Watkins by a majority of 103.

Brazil did not have an escape route for when times got rough – unlike other teams in this competition – they were predictable and easy to figure out, and once Germany saw that, the contest was over.