A sharp contest for a rotten seat, or, A set-to for the speakership [graphic] / C.J.G.
Mr. Rabbani's words stood in sharp contest to those of one of the men who has bested him, for now.
Despite a sharp contest, the Austrians succeeded in pushing the French out of the Winterthur highlands, although both sides took high casualties.
In an interview a few days before the opening, Mr. Slotover and Ms. Sharp didn't contest the commercial interest in cornering the rest of art history for Frieze, but they maintained that their inspiration was as much curatorial as market-driven.
The good news first: what could easily have been a damp soggy wreck of a pointless series has actually shaped up quite nicely: a short, sharp, three match contest between two sides vying for second place in the ODI rankings (with a runaway leader a mile out of sight) boiling down to a decider on the picturesque south coast.
A majority of Democratic primary voters in Oklahoma said their political views are moderate or conservative, a sharp break from early contests where sometimes record levels identified as liberals.
The musicians found common ground, along with sharp new ways of contesting it.
Two less showy numbers won the taste contest: a sharp lemon tart and Key lime cheesecake, fluffy, tangy and delicious.
The twin announcements threw a sharp curve into the contest, leaving Cornell's $2 billion proposal for Roosevelt Island as the clear front-runner for what is seen as a prime opportunity to help reinvent higher education.
Mr. Childers's campaign said his negative rating among voters has risen acutely, internal polls show a sharp narrowing in the contest, and interviews with voters indicated the supposed Childers-Obama link could influence votes.
