Sentences with phrase «win against stiff competition»

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They've pulled off wins against Dayton, Middle Tennessee State, and Gonzaga to reach the Elite 8 and now face their stiffest competition yet.

We are delighted with the win, especially as it was against some stiff competition.

Up against some stiff competition that included Michael Fassbender, Matt Damon, Bradley Cooper, and Daniel Brühl («Rush»), the actor won in the best supporting actor category and thanked Hanks and director Paul Greengrass «for believing in me before I believed in myself.»

Going up against some stiff competition, she was given outsider odds of 28/1 to win over rivals Meryl Streep, nominated for «Florence Foster Jenkins» and Natalie Portman, for her role in «Jackie».

Unfortunately for her, this year she was up against some stiff competition from Annette Bening, Nicole Kidman, Michelle Williams and the favorite to win, Natalie Portman.

«Winning the GT1 championship for the second year in a row would mean a lot because we're up against stiff competition from Aston Martin and from our own teammates,» Gavin noted.

The sedan won the championship in 1985 against stiff competition from race - spec versions of the Alfa Romeo GTV, Ford Sierra XR8, and the Mazda RX7.

The Corvette Z06 was up against some pretty stiff competition, and while we held our breath as Motor Trend used every camera angle trick in the book to not show you who wins until the very end, the red Corvette Z06 came out on top.

In the following lines we will compare and contrast the Amazon Kindle Fire and the Nook Color, trying to find out if, before having to face such stiff competition as the Apple iPad 2, Amazon's upcoming tablet can win a head - to - head contest with the gadget that it was actually meant to compete against.

Richard Dawson, Group MD at PSG commented «Being shortlisted for Search Provider of the Year against such stiff competition was great news and whilst we would have loved to win the category we are really pleased to be a runner up too.