Sentence examples for war contest from inspiring English sources

Congratulations to Nathan Chadwick, the winner of this week's Civil War contest.

By The New Yorker April 15 , 2011Congratulations to Nathan Chadwick, the winner of this week's Civil War contest.

So, following my "name that war" contest last fall, I'm holding a competition for (short) poetry about the Iraq war or occupation.

In the cold war contest with the Soviet Union, he armed and embraced the Afghan "freedom fighters" and their Arab allies, some of whom evolved into the terrorists of Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

This week, Barack Obama, the first black president of the once-triumphant superpower in that Cold War contest, heads to Beijing to meet America's bankers — the Chinese Communist government — a prospect undreamt of 20 years ago.

Mr Obama said there had been more anti-American rhetoric since Mr Putin returned to the Russian presidency, which "played into some of the old stereotypes about the Cold War contest".

Just as the injured and dying Union troops streamed into the capital after Civil War contests, there were funerals last week of public servants felled in anthrax attacks, filled with colleagues fuming over second-class treatment.

What's also true is, is that when President Putin -- who was prime minister when Medvedev was president -- came back into power I think we saw more rhetoric on the Russian side that was anti-American, that played into some of the old stereotypes about the Cold War contests between the United States and Russia.

The Daily Telegraph has been blunter in its assessment that the election is "a class-war contest between the promise of prosperity and the defence of the working class".

WHEN word began circulating on the Internet in December that Lucasfilm would be a co-sponsor of a "Star Wars" contest for fan-made films, to be judged by George Lucas himself, members of the growing digital underground felt as if the Force was finally with them.

BBC WM's Mike Taylor: "Warwickshire's disciplined bowling and batting gave them control of the match in the third session after a tug-of-war contest in the first two.