Politically, it's both one of its more polarised and one of its most finely-balanced, depending on the type of contest being fought.
Mendoza (3-1) seemed to be tiring, and this game appeared destined to become a battle of the bullpens in the late innings, the type of contest the Yankees were not equipped to win.
It was shaping up to be a dream game, one of their best performances of the season, the type of contest that could propel a team to something special.
As the Nets' game with the Knicks deteriorated into that type of contest down the stretch last night, Coach Lawrence Frank looked on from the sideline, tie askew, jacket floating off his shoulders, and he saw beauty in this the way only a mother or a coach could.
"Poland will be a tough match, particularly in Warsaw, but it's exactly the type of contest we will need to overcome in the Euro Championship qualifiers.
However, competing for being the least of the evildoers is exactly the type of contest we do not want to join.
Have and use mostly moves that correspond the the type of contest you enter.
It would be more advantageous if their favorite food corresponds with the type of contest you entered.
The Yankees had not played this type of sticky postseason contest since Game 4 of the 1998 American League Championship Series against the Indians and Game 3 of the 1996 World Series against the Braves.
But most all of these arguments take place inside the idea of history as a certain type of contest of systems, even a progression the kind of History that has Big Power control, in the form of some empire or other, or diplomatic codifications of behavior at the Congress of Vienna, Versailles or Yalta.
