Sentence examples for stamina against from inspiring English sources

These events allow competitors to test their stamina against the terrain, the elements and each other.

Roughly half of that annual eel consumption takes place during the summer months, when Japanese tradition holds that the nourishing unagi helps maintain one's stamina against the withering heat.

Getting away from the Grand National has sometimes felt like taking part in it, only with a greater need for stamina and against a field of 70,000 rather than the mere 40 that line up on the track.

Taylor's coaching philosophy acknowledged the nature of racewalking, a test of stamina and concentration against distance and monotony.

When you play five-on-five and you're running up and down, it shows your stamina, your speed against other big men and your jumping ability.

Such delight as there was belonged to JP McManus, the owner of both Jezki and My Tent Or Yours, and the backers of Jezki, whose stamina proved decisive against a rival who probably has a little more speed and class but has now succumbed to a grittier opponent on the hill at successive Festivals.

It takes some stamina to lean against the prevailing winds.

But with reliable directions that improve with scale and by offering in-transit communication and social functionality, check-ins, Facebook sign-on, automatic shortcuts, private messaging, and features like the indication of toll road usage in routing, Waze's stamina (and defensibility against the Big Boys) is starting to look a lot more convincing.

That is not to say however that the exposé, conducted by the Mail on Sunday should be seen as beneficent act, rather it was an attack against the stamina and growth of the feminist movement that used one group of exploited women to attack another group of women.

"An older one who's been around for years almost always measures his chances against his physical stamina.

But to read about his practical solutions to the problems of hunger and exposure and illness and solitude is to be invited into the narrative, to imagine what I would do if I were similarly stranded, and to measure my own stamina and resourcefulness and industry against his.