Sentence examples for verbal contest from inspiring English sources
Well, he then insulted me, we started a verbal contest, he told me to move on, I was scared but refused to, and finally we had a fight.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, aired those and other bewildering thoughts in a two-hour verbal contest at Columbia University yesterday, providing some ammunition to people who said there was no point in inviting him to speak.
For many that's what live comedy is still all about: that thrilling battle of wits, that dogged verbal contest, the exciting possibility that you might get to hear someone lie about having shagged someone else's mum.
And after the murder, when Cassius is scolded by Brutus in their military encampment, the scene becomes a verbal contest that seems almost muscular, as though the two men were arm wrestling, shaming Cassius with the same slow-to-arrive inevitability.
As Michael Billington noted in his fine book on the life and work of Pinter, the main characters, who engage in a verbal contest no less thorough than the batsman's with a bowler, correspond to notable figures from the game's past: George Hirst, the Yorkshire all-rounder, and RH "Reggie" Spooner, the classical Lancashire strokeplayer.
He won the verbal contest and went on to land the 1940 Republican nomination for President.
Explain that formal debates are verbal contests in which equal numbers of participants engage each other, one side arguing in support of a given (positive) statement and the other side attempting to refute that statement.
Plato institutionalized such disputations into structured, rule-governed verbal contests that became known as dialectical argument.
There was a history of verbal gaffes in Pennsylvania political contests.
He does not, however, anticipate a repeat of the mind and verbal games that characterised Schumacher's contest with Damon Hill in 1994-95.
A successful liberal arts education equips students to recognize real bias, to contest it, and to use verbal skill to disarm those who would act on it.
