Sentence examples for tournament a single from inspiring English sources

ALBANIA In their first appearance at a major tournament, a single victory would be an achievement.

Second in the tournament by a single stroke, Bubba tees off on Saturday.

Surely the greatest ever display at a World Cup finals tournament by a single player.

France have beaten only Papua New Guinea in the tournament, by a single point in their opening game, and England comfortably overcame them during two matches in November last year.

And so it was in equal measure surprising and predictable that in an auction held this week to choose players for this spring's fiercely competitive, privately owned Indian Premier League cricket tournament, not a single Pakistani player was chosen.

"If England go home from this tournament with a single win over Afghanistan to their names, do you think the media will question Broad's position as captain?" asks Dave Adams.

This was a fifth win in this tournament by a single goal.

This experiment compares the performance of two contest designs: a standard winner-take-all tournament with a single fixed prize, and a novel proportional-payment design in which that same prize is divided among contestants by their share of total achievement.

Key's performances helped England win the tournament by a single point from Ireland's Under-17s.

Instead of actually focusing on the horrors at the heart of the story, the film shies away from the bloodshed and instead gives us 'good' contestants and 'bad' contestants, allowing us to cheer when those who would slay virtuous Katniss Everdeen (who manages to survive the tournament without a single real murder to her name) meet gruesome fates.

She became the first woman to win two major tournaments in a single year; she played in the World Series of Poker while nine months pregnant; she testified in Congress (twice) to support the legality of online betting.