Sentence examples for the race provides from inspiring English sources

The government's view is clear – the race provides significant tangible and less visible benefits to Victoria and is worth the money.

Those powers, plus the freedom from political blocs and their agendas that dropping out of the race provides, could help him push through a real ethics reform package.

But more than $40 million has been spent by the campaigns and outside groups trying to convince voters that the race provides an opportunity to upend all that is wrong with the federal government.

Sixteen years on from Radcliffe the race provides the toughest examination of the early ­senior career of Stephanie Twell, the ­Aldershot athlete who cannot escape being ­compared to the country's greatest distance runner and who is one of the leading hopes for success at the Olympic Games in London in 2012.

Anyone who has competed in a marathon, or who knows someone who has, knows that the race provides a small drama of loss and recovery: you try and pick your wife's face out of the crowd of other people's wives, husbands, sons, and daughters; in the end, there is always the slight panic about finding the person you gave over to what seemed like great peril and danger for four hours.

The race provides jockeys with what T.S. Eliot described as "the still point in a turning world".

The race provided a late-career high for the filly's jockey, Jamie Spencer, who is due to retire at the end of the year for an organisational role with Qatar Racing, owners of Just The Judge.

But, despite the dominance of Sky's pedal-turning automatons, the race provided no shortage of drama, including the loss through injury of not one but two early race leaders in Tony Martin and Fabian Cancellara.

The governor's backing added a major new variable to the race, providing the imprimatur of New York's most popular politician to a candidate whose political career appeared to be hanging by a thread.

Another independent group, which is called Rethink Brown and aims, according to its Web site, to "encourage Massachusetts voters to make up their own minds about U.S. Senator Scott Brown's actual record and potentially 'rethink' their initial opinions about him," said it would suspend its advertising in the race, "provided that other third parties do the same".

And the race provided yet further ammunition for the drivers' arguments.