Sentence examples for tournament strongly from inspiring English sources

It has made Lancaster even more conscious of the need to finish the tournament strongly.

This time Russia started the tournament strongly, beating the Czech Republic 4-1, but faded fast, losing to unfancied Greece.

England's World Cup chances are also helped by the fact it is in one of the easier pools, and it would be a major surprise were Martin Johnson's men not to finish on top of Group B. Romania and Georgia will not threaten the 2003 champions, while facing Argentina first will ensure that there is no complacency as England looks to start the tournament strongly and send a message to its rivals.

In this paper, it is shown that GDDs without α-resolution classes in each group are also specified by Hadamard tournaments and strongly regular graphs.

It is known that group divisible designs (GDDs) with r=λ1+1 are regular and symmetric, and that the combinatorial structure of these designs is characterized in terms of Hadamard tournaments and strongly regular graphs.

United States national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann has made the point early and often: he believes the Olympics are an important international tournament, and he felt strongly that the United States should put its best foot forward in the upcoming London Games.

The Associate countries, who were most likely to miss out in a tournament with fewer teams, strongly objected and, led by Ireland, urged the ICC to reconsider and the decision was reversed.

They'll be talking about proving a point, especially as England are hosting next year's World Cup and show signs of building strongly for that tournament.

Bell, who was Balukas' best friend on the women's tour, had never beaten Balukas but had been playing very strongly in the tournament.

English football's Premier League strongly opposed a winter tournament given the disruption it would cause to the title run-in and the hole it would create in the schedules of its broadcast partners.

In contrast to the 2 h practice sessions in somewhat less stressful environmental conditions described above, 4 preplay hydration status (urine-specific gravity) in these tournament players was progressively and ultimately strongly associated (r=0.87; p=0.005) with on-court thermal strain (38.7 (0.3)°C at the end of match-play, while exceeding 39°C for some players) during singles competition.