Sentences with phrase «story contest gives»

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Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

The annual contest gives couples matched through its service the opportunity to win a luxury dream date by sharing their personal eHarmony «story of romance.

In one of the film's many far - fetched moments, somehow flipping back - and - forth between watching Susan Boyle's audition on «Britain's Got Talent» (the story is set in 2008) and a cricket match on cable TV gives JB the idea to hold a contest in India to try to find two cricket players who can be brought to America and turned into professional baseball pitchers.

Bentley's website gives contest rules: «The winner will be chosen based on the most compelling and convincing story as to why they should be the winner.