Sentences with phrase «good challenger»

For many years, Ray Speight (James Cromwell, The Sum of All Fears) has been the local champion in the game of bowls (lawn bowling), and is as skillful on the field in besting his challengers as he is in using the strict rules of the game to ensure worthy opponents have a hard time rising to his level.
Both Derrick and Funiciello have fought an uphill battle to unseat Stefanik, who carved out a sweeping victory two years ago, besting challenger Aaron Woolf by 20 points, 53 to 32.5.
Incumbent Fernando Cabrera, a stridently anti-gay minister who once traveled to Uganda to offer his support to homophobic forces there pushing a death penalty bill for gay people, bested challenger Randy Abreu, a former Obama administration energy official, by nearly 20 percentage points.
In the 7th district, Nydia Velázquez had nearly 62 percent of the vote, besting challengers Yungman Lee (27 percent) and Jeffrey Kurzon (10 percent)
More familiar faces dominated the software list, with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for the Xbox 360 once again besting all challengers, notching up another 331,000 in sales.
heck, I usually vote Dem but would have welcomed a good challenger to President Obama, and would have voted for the right one — but the list of inappropriate ideologues that the GOP has put forth starting with Bush have made them completely irrelevant to moderates, which, as you said, is what most of us are.
At least three good challengers — the heavyweight division lives again!
A better challenger will be the Philadelphia 76ers.
Duffy is averaging 5.4 successful aerial challengers per match, which ranks him among the best challengers for the ball in the air in the Premier League this season — only Ryan Shawcross has a better success rate.
He's personally involved in trying to determine who the best challenger would be to Felder.»
One way or another I'd personally put forth Neville as a good challenger for the belt in coming months, but whether the WWE will go with that is unlikely and I'm more convinced he's going to appear in a feud with a certain Celtic Warrior.
Xbox One would have been a good challenger without the missteps even with the power of the PlayStation brand, Microsoft just kneecapped themselves.
It's half the size of the iPad, but the Nexus 7 may be its best challenger yet.
However, Sennheiser has offered a good challenger in the form of the PXC 550.
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