Sentence examples for tight struggle from inspiring English sources

The torrid fund-raising is accounted for, in part, by the tight struggle for control of Congress.

BRONCOS 17, STEELERS 14 Elam Hits Field Goal On the Final Play Jason Elam settled a tight struggle between the American Football Conference's top two defenses.

A14 Only nine days after the death of Senator Paul Wellstone, President Bush flew to Minnesota to campaign for Norm Coleman, who is in a tight struggle against his new competitor, former Vice President Walter F. Mondale.

On windswept court-12, James Ward is currently locked in a fiendishly tight struggle with the pesky Yen-Hsun Yu, leading 5-4 in the third but at one set apiece.

This was the best game so far of these troubled finals, the first overtime of the round, too, a tense and tight struggle, fast and fair, with plenty of scoring chances and many hard hits that did not, for a change, cause injury, start fights or encourage discussion of suspension.

Liberal Chris Crewther, a small businessman, and Labor's Peta Murphy, a barrister who has worked for the Victorian Law Reform Commission are locked in a tight struggle, in which Crewther holds the upper hand with 50.3% of the two-party-preferred vote.

As he was zipped into the yellow jersey, Contador trembled, covered his eyes and held his lips tight, struggling to keep the tears at bay.

When money's tight, struggling families are less likely to splurge on produce, which is more expensive than other food items and doesn't have a long shelf life.

First decorating, then as a procreation machine and then the final rejection, were the basic causes which made me revolt in my way, submitting myself in unspeakable hardships, in order to keep tight struggling as it was imposed by the separating human factor from the other species of creation.

When money is tight, the struggle to close the gap in athletic opportunity is even tougher.

There was little in it until mid-set, when Williams saved a couple of break points in a tight deuce struggle, then hit ferociously through the Dutch player's static defence to go 4-3 up.