This encounter ends with Elijah victorious over the official Baal prophets of Israel in a contest held for the sake of the Israelites and their king, Ahab.

Only in the 19th century was it used as a term for an athletic contest between two teams who haul at the opposite ends of a rope.

No contest ( NC ) is a technical term used in some combat sports to describe a fight that ends for reasons outside the fighters ' hands.

The festival ends off with a day-long street parade on the 5th featuring dance performances and finally, an archery contest at Owase Jinja.

This contest ends on December 13, 1998

The conference often ends with a LISA Quiz Show trivia contest.

The Firewater Straits are renamed the Sanguine Straits during the course of the war, due to the ferocity and cost of the naval battles to control them ( a contest, again, that ends in a Crobuzine victory ).

The contest winners are announced at a masquerade ball which officially ends the festival.

The contest begins at 5 p. m. on the second Friday in February, and ends at 7 p. m. on the following Sunday.

There follows the first-to fourth-place entries in that order, after which is listed a ( usually ) generous number of Honorable Mentions, and the week's report ends with a reminder of which contest results will appear the next week.

Trip leaves class, so he can call the contest line and he ends up winning the tickets.

" The contest ends in a riot and Lisa ends up hit in the face twice with pudding.

The contest for the ball ' never ends without black eyes and bloody noses, broken heads or shins, and some serious mischief ,' a writer said in 1830 when camping popularity was at its height.

The contest typically ends when one of the opponents ' score reaches zero.

The contest runs year long and ends in a Design Fair and Conference held on the University of Toronto's St. George Campus in mid May.

Class ends early and there is a pi recitation contest.

Apollo also had a lyre-playing contest with Cinyras, his son, who committed suicide when he lost.

A rubber is a ' best-of-three ' contest and is completed when one side is first to have won two games.

The result is decided when an opponent is deemed incapable to continue by a referee, is disqualified for breaking a rule, resigns by throwing in a towel, or is pronounced the winner or loser based on the judges ' scorecards at the end of the contest.

He applied his intelligence in unconventional ways, winning a contest when he was in eighth grade by finding over 4, 500 words that could be formed from the letters in " Ziegler's Giant Bar "; the judges had only about 2, 500 words on their master list.

Other myths say that Equuleus is the horse struck from Poseidon's trident, during the contest between him and Athena when deciding which would be the superior.

Peter Krentz argues that " the ideology of hoplitic warfare as a ritualized contest developed not in the 7th century, but only after 480, when non-hoplite arms began to be excluded from the phalanx ".

Most economists today also contest that the value of capital is limited to the " congealed labor " that it took to build the capital when that capital can increase the productive capability of labor much more than that.

The first boxing contest held at the Arms Park was on 24 January 1914, when Bombadier Billy Wells beat Gaston Pigot by a knockout in the first round of a 20 round contest.

In cases such as an automobile collision when there is a potential for civil liability against the defendant, the defendant may agree to plead no contest or " guilty with a civil reservation ", which essentially is a guilty plea without admitting civil liability.

The word satyagraha itself was coined through a public contest that Gandhi sponsored through the newspaper he published in South Africa, ' Indian Opinion ', when he realized that neither the common, contemporary Hindu language nor the English language contained a word which fully expressed his own meanings and intentions when he talked about his nonviolent approaches to conflict.

Facing the possibility of impeachment after federal investigators probed his having allegedly received kickbacks from Maryland contractors when he was serving as County Executive of Baltimore County, he instead resigned and pleaded no contest to a single count of income tax evasion.

The alarm calls were a response of the baboons to lions, and the contest calls were recorded when there was a dispute between two males.

Moreover the Hellanodikai, who manage the games at Olympia, decided that they were so: for when Alexander wished to contend in the games and had descended for this purpose into the arena, the Hellenes who were to run against him tried to exclude him, saying that the contest was not for Barbarians to contend in but for Hellenes: since however Alexander proved that he was of Argos, he was judged to be a Hellene, and when he entered the contest of the foot-race his lot came out with that of the first.

In April 1947, when Crouch was a senior at Winthrop College, Thurmond was a judge in a beauty contest in which she was selected as Miss South Carolina.

He was received with great enthusiasm at Avignon, Montpellier and other cities, held a synod at Vienne in January 1119, and was planning to hold a general council to settle the investiture contest when he died at Cluny.

Berle entered show business at the age of five when he won an amateur talent contest.

Also, when the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland held a popular contest to nominate the " most energizing " word in the Finnish language, one of the suggestions was Perkele because " it is the curse word that gave the most strength for the reconstruction of Finland after the wars.

A famous " Battle of the Bands " or " cutting contest " happened when the Benny Goodman Orchestra challenged Chick Webb in 1937.

Born in Nagano, Japan, Kobayashi set his first record at his rookie appearance on July 4, 2001, when he ate 50 hot dogs in 12 minutes at the Nathan's Coney Island hot dog-eating contest, doubling the previous record of 25.

His denunciation of the royal dynasty of Israel, and his emphatic insistence on the worship of Yahweh and Yahweh alone, illustrated by the contest between Yahweh and Baal on Mount Carmel, as told in 1 Kings 18, form the keynote to a period which culminated in the accession of Jehu, an event in which Elijah's chosen disciple Elisha was the leading figure.

The Discalced Carmelite Order also built the priory of Elijah ( 1911 ) at the site of Elijah's epic contest with the prophets of Ba ' al ( 1 Kings 18: 20-40.

Boniface had no choice but to contest Philip's demands, informing Philip that " God has set popes over kings and kingdoms.

Later, when Horner and Thump are about to fight, Henry sees the contest as a sacred point of honour: " A God's name, see the lists and all things fit ;/ Here let them end it, and God defend the right " ( 2. 3. 54 – 55 ).

In 1931, while attending West Seattle High School, she entered and won $ 100 from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, a writing contest sponsored by Scholastic Magazine, with her controversial essay " God Dies ".

Ahmad's followers claim that he had categorically vowed in Anjam-e-Atham not to engage in any more debates, as he judged them ineffective at convincing the religious clergy to reform ( the reason why he had challenged Meher Ali Shah to such a decisive contest in the first place and not to a debate ); rather, he would invoke God for divine intervention by holding such contests or " prayer duels ", which he called Ejazi-Muqabala, or " miraculous contest ", between him and his opponents, primarily Christian missionaries and Muslim scholars and divines.

* Ármann Jakobsson, " A contest of cosmic fathers: God and giant in Vafþrúðnismál.

Spiggott is in a contest with God, trying to be the first to gather 100 billion souls.

The party was founded in South Australia in time to contest the 2002 state elections, when former Assemblies of God pastor Dr Andrew Evans became its first Member of the Legislative Council ( MLC ), winning a seat in the South Australian Legislative Council.

Loki in the disguise of Gyros: God of Pitas tricks Zeus into holding a contest between Thor and Hercules.

In 1971 he won a talent contest in Bull Bay, his prize a meeting with producer Clancy Eccles, with whom he recorded his first song, " God Made the Sea and the Sun ", the following year.

" is a song written by Edgar M. Dilley ( Class of 1897 ) as a submission to an University of Pennsylvania alumni committee-sponsored contest to write a song to the tune of " God Save the Tsar!