Sentence examples for severe contest from inspiring English sources

THIS newspaper was established in 1843 to take part in "a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress".

The main point is that a severe contest in political ideas has been started, and will not easily go away.Mr Koizumi's task is to harness Japan's new receptiveness to competition and apply it to the economy.

He suggested, rather, that the starring role should be given to a group of thinkers, such as Montesquieu, who argued that the best way to prevent social disorder was to channel people's passions into moneymaking.The Economist claims to engage in a "severe contest" with "an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress".

The producer, apparently, received a severe reprimand.The BBC contests the complaint vigorously.

"The Frogs" remained famous over the centuries not for its belly laughs but for that climactic contest between the playwrights: the severe, grand Aeschylus and the more accessible, poetic Euripides.

But the 1997 competition was a severe blow to Mr. Armstrong, a former student at the Hoff Barthelson Music School in Scarsdale who had already garnered more than 25 national and international first prizes on the contest route.

The dispute over Scotland's televised leaders' debates has taken a further twist, leaving the future of STV's planned contest between Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling in severe doubt – regardless of the date the broadcaster chooses.

Nevertheless, they termed the contest "fateful," warning that a loss "could have severe negative consequences".

Our results contest the assertion that IgAN follows a more severe course in individuals of Asian/Pacific Islander descent.

Steve Crowther, the party's outgoing chairman, has said any attempt to exclude Woolfe from the contest would be ludicrous and could put the party in severe jeopardy.

Their challenge focuses on part of that ruling that said an inmate contesting a method of execution based on the risk of severe pain has to show there is a "known and available alternative".