These intuitions of his have involved the President in contestswith both Houses of Congress.
The Presidential election of 1848 was a great satisfaction to him; but he thought more frequently and naturally of his own past political contests and of the Presidents whom he had helped to make.
In all the contests for the possession of their country, they were influenced by their wishes rather than their duty; and three hundred of them were captured with the garrison of Beau Sejour.
Contests respecting prior discovery, and extent of possession, arose among all the first settlers.
Sidenote: Renewal ofcontests with the French colonies respecting boundary.
In England, thecontests between the King and Parliament, at length ripened into open war.
During these contests in the interior, the frontiers had suffered severely from the depredations of the Indians.
Almost every important measure brought before the legislature, was productive of contests between these departments.
In Carolina, the vexatious contests with the proprietors still continued.
Contests soon arose, between his lordship and the legislature, on the subject of money; the house requiring a statement of disbursements, and the appointment of a treasurer, to be controlled by them.
During his administration, the contests between the proprietors and the people increased.
At this same meeting at Memphis he declared that in all contests between the negro and the white man he was for the white man, but that in all questions between the negro and the crocodile he was for the negro.
Weight is indeed thought of such importance in these contests that men are fattened for them like prize cattle, under the mistaken belief that such size is an advantage to the fortunate possessor!
The conditions of these games give frequent opportunities for the young man to cultivate the spirit of honesty and fair play--the spirit, without which, no man can reach his highest success in the real contests of life.
These quarrels, when compared with the larger national political contests of history, seem petty enough and even tedious in detail.
From this point of view it involved a series of contests between the proprietors and the Crown on the one side and the Assembly on the other.
Other contests arose over the claim of the proprietors that their estates in the province were exempt from taxation for the war or any purpose.
The contests between the different deputy governors, whom Penn or his descendants sent out, and the Quaker Legislature fill the annals of the province for the next seventy years, down to the Revolution.
Such a rugged schooling in Ireland made of them a very aggressive, hardy people, Protestants of the Protestants, so accustomed to contests and warfare that they accepted it as the natural state of man.
I have made use of similar illusions in the contests you have had with my followers.
Several similar contests with the petty tyrants and marauders of the country followed, in all of which Theseus was victorious.
Besides these exercises of bodily strength and agility, there were contests in music, poetry, and eloquence.
At any rate he established himself at Naples as a young man, and opened a school for rhetoric and poetry, engaging in the quinquennial contests himself, and training his pupils to do the same.
Spirits like these would have had no chance of rising to eminence amid the fierce contests of the Republic.
The sons of simple burghers entered upon the contests of free, intellectual aspirations with a zeal mostly absent in those whose position is already secured by birth.
There were sharp contests at the polls, painful severings of social ties and all the bitterness which partisanship gives to political discussion.
Thus far Rhode Island has come off with honor in her contests with her neighbors.
Here, during the winter of 1171, the Celt, the Saxon, and the Norman, may have engaged in peaceful contests and pleasant trials of skill.
Duald Mac Firbis gives a curious account of these contests in his fragments of Annals.
Through prize contests they hope to find what nature has produced.
Such a specialist would be the proper person to keep the score cards of the prize-winning black walnuts, hickories, butternuts and English (Persian) walnuts of nut contests held in the state.
Through its pages ourcontests get a wide publicity.
The field for the sports and contests lay outside the town, and there the crowd gathered at an early hour.
Entrances for the various contestsmay be made now or to-morrow, if that serves you better.
There were other contests and amusements to occupy the time between the dash and the hurdle race.
Then there was wrestling and other contestsin which the Yale Combine was not concerned.
Of course we have no authority from Yale to use the name, but if we give a good account of ourselves in the contests in which we may participate, I hardly think that need trouble us.
War between France and Britain being proclaimed next year, the American colonists of the latter adopted the Iroquois as their especial allies, in the ensuing contests with the people of New France.
The severecontests in which France and Britain were almost continually engaged required occasional breathing-time.
The battle of Poltava was selected by Sir Edward Creasy as one of the fifteen great decisive contests which have altered the fate of nations.
Of or pertaining to gladiators, or to contests or combatants in general.
Under this head may come in the several contests and wars betwixt popes and the secular princes.
They consisted of all kinds of athletic sports, wrestling, boxing, racing on foot and in chariots, and also contests in music and poetry.
To eject thecontests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.
The state or quality of being neutral; the condition of being unengaged in contestsbetween others; state of taking no part on either side; indifference.
He carried on severe contests with the kings of Kent.
The early history of Morrison county is enlivened by many thrilling incidents of Indian warfare, chiefly of contests between the Sioux and Chippewas.
The zeal which Santa Anna continually exhibited in almost daily contests with guerillas outside of the walls of Vera Cruz, so long as the contest was confined to a war of races, soon won him distinction.
Actions the most harmless, and questions purely personal, were matters for the contests of parties.
The first of the series of contests was conducted to a finish, and the second was called, which was to be a contest in target shooting, to which none but women were admitted.
Contests with the bow and arrow, and tilts with the javelin, were to be especial features of the approaching tourney, which were open to all comers.
The contests between Stephen and Harcourt were especially famous.
There was no general prejudice against him to be encountered; and in the intellectual 'rough and tumble' which replaced the old school contests his force of mind was respected by everyone and very warmly appreciated by a chosen few.
Nevertheless whereunto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Because this duty of bearing witness for truth, and declaring against all error, and defection from it, and transmitting the same uncorrupted to posterity, is expressly enjoined on the church by the Spirit of God in the Scriptures of truth.
Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days, for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting any more upon the throne of Israel.
God requires of his people an universal respect to all his ordinances and commandments.
And so, in order to get a greater return for their labor, they admitted the populace to their contests like the spectators of a play brought out at the theatre.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contests" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
