Sentence examples for the contests of from inspiring English sources

Even with this handicap, Oxbridge has won half of the contests of the Jeremy Paxman era.

Even the vexed relations between the incumbent president and his vice president recalls the contests of 1960 and 1980.

Clark calls the disputation a "theater of warfare, combat, trial and joust," and, indeed, early proponents likened it to the contests of athletic champions in ancient Rome.

He went on to win other events, including the contests of heralds, tragedians and guitarists that he had created by special edict.

If the contests of yesterday were filled with aspiring professionals being judged by experts, a significant new strain of the Big Serious Piano Competition has risen up, and it is a considerably different animal.

At the same time, Chinese statesmen-facing threats of invasion from without, and the contests of competing factions within-developed a canon of strategic thought that prized the virtues of subtlety, patience, and indirection over feats of martial prowess.

They are now in the "Contest of the century".

THE CONTEST OF THE CENTURY, by Geoff Dyer (Knopf).

Who will win the contest of the Boateng brothers?

The week escalated the contest of estranged marriages.

For the record, we received 4,763 entries in the contest, of which 4,555 were correct.