Sentence examples for spiral race from inspiring English sources

They look a lot like the New Game of Human Life — spiral race games adapted to the pilgrimage of life — and they're just as awful to play.

And, like all earlier spiral race games of life, the Game of Life is essentially about fate — not whether you're fated to enter Heaven but whether you're fated to retire to Millionaire Acres.

By the seventeen-twenties, English printers had adapted the spiral race game to the idea that life is a voyage in which travellers are buffeted between vice and virtue.

And, like all earlier spiral race games of life, the Game of Life is essentially about fate not whether you're fated to enter Heaven but whether you're fated to retire to Millionaire Acres.

It adapted its board and rules from a game called the Royal Game of Goose, which was invented in Florence in the sixteenth century, and was itself descended from a class of board games that R. C. Bell calls "spiral race games".

(The oldest spiral race game may be the Hyena Game, played by Arabs in Sudan, in a groove traced in the sand with a stick and involving a race between pebbles representing the players' mothers, who leave their village and head to a well at the spiral's center, where they must wash their clothes and return home before a hyena catches them).

"Everybody who has ever worked on a campaign knows the poisonous influence of the ever spiraling race for money," Ms. Stone Davidoff said, pointing to what she described as "the influence of large donations".

With the Glushko error count beginning to spiral, Lisicki raced to 6-1.

An American shield could thus force China to spend far more money than it can afford, fielding a larger nuclear force than it otherwise would in a spiraling arms race.

President John F. Kennedy said an agreement banning all nuclear tests "would check the spiraling arms race in one of its most dangerous areas," and in 1963 Washington, London and Moscow signed a partial test ban treaty, halting all nuclear tests in the atmosphere, under water and in outer space.

Many of those who follow this sector closely believe that the deal is more about the latter than the former - buying up a portfolio of patents means extra ammunition in the spiralling arms race of suit and counter suit.