Sentence examples for straight competition from inspiring English sources

Wales are chasing the record books and a third straight competition triumph; Ireland want to send the great Brian O'Driscoll off on a high.

Over the years, he has tossed back plenty of bowls straight (competition lingo for all-meat, no-bean chili).

For the second straight competition she tumbled off the balance beam and lacked the iron confidence that has been her trademark.

We might be able to avoid the straight competition with the major companies by focusing more on the previously mentioned products.

The Canadian pair have won nine straight competitions, including the 2001 world championships.

Before tonight, the Canadians had won nine straight competitions, including the 2001 world championships.

Russia's Pasha Grishuk and Yevgeny Platov won the gold, which was no great surprise since they had already won 21 straight competitions.

Frenzel also won Friday's first event of the so-called Nordic Combined Triple, a format which adds the results of three straight competitions.

"It's a straight knockout competition, so there are a lot of things that can go wrong.

Rather than a straight knockout competition, the 16 teams are divided into four groups, with the four winners advancing to the semi-finals.

"I don't understand why there is a group situation [rather than a straight knockout competition]." BWF officials introduced a preliminary pool round for London 2012, against the customary knockout stages from the beginning in previous Games.