Apollo has ominous aspects aside from his plague-bringing, death-dealing arrows: Marsyas was a satyr who challenged Apollo to a contest of music.

The contest was judged by the Muses.

While the Byzantine Empire was to continue for nearly another four centuries, and the Crusades would contest the issue for some time, the victory at Manzikert signalled the beginning of Turkish ascendancy in Anatolia.

Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.

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.

Colangelo's group was so certain that they would be awarded a franchise that they held a name-the-team contest for it ; they took out a full-page ad in the sports section of the February 13, 1995 edition of the state's leading newspaper, the Arizona Republic.

Alford pled guilty to second-degree murder, and said he was doing so to avoid a death sentence if he had been convicted of first-degree murder after attempting to contest that charge.

At that moment, the nominal ruler of al-Andalus, emir Yusuf ibn ' Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri ( another member of the Fihrid family, and a favorite of the old Arab settlers ( baladiyun ), mostly of south Arabian or ' Yemenite ' tribal stock ) was locked in a contest with his vizier ( and son-in-law ) al-Sumayl ibn Hatim al-Qilabi, the head of the new settlers ( shamiyum, the Syrian junds or military regiments, mostly of north Arabian Qaysid tribes, which had arrived only in 742 ).

However, former California Governor Jerry Brown was scoring victories and Clinton had yet to win a significant contest outside his native South.

With minor exceptions, balloting was considered free and fair by the local human rights organizations which monitored the contest.

In March 1964, " Elverket Spelmanslag " was up against another band in a talent contest, The Hep Stars.

He gained nominations to contest progressively safer seats at two subsequent General Elections and was in both cases elected, for Shrewsbury in 1841 ( despite serious opposition, and financial difficulties which opponents seized on ), and then for Buckinghamshire county in 1847.

" It was a hard-fought contest, leading Prince Eugene to observe – " I have not a squadron or battalion which did not charge four times at least.

Modell's team was named the " Baltimore Ravens " after a fan contest and began play in the 1996 season.

A fan contest, drawing 33, 288 voters, was then held to determine the team's name.

In the Glasgow Hillhead by-election in March 1982, another candidate named Roy Jenkins was nominated by Labour Party activists to contest the seat in order to confuse voters and split his potential vote.

In particular, he was invited to play at the opening ceremony of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow because the organizers wanted to give a " more Russian appearance " of the contest.

In the end, the Cham replica was more impressive than the real brick tower of the Khmer, and the Cham won the contest.

In the post-election leadership contest held in November 1935, Attlee was opposed by Herbert Morrison and Arthur Greenwood.

One of the highlights of the AAFC years was a contest between the 49ers and Browns in 1948.

Soon afterward, he was named team captain, and in 1903 the team was renamed the " Naps " after a newspaper conducted a write-in contest.

" Columbus won the national contest " America in Bloom " in 2006, and in 2004 it was named one of " The Ten Most Playful Towns " by Nick Jr. Family Magazine.

The first Cricket World Cup contest was organised in England in 1975.

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.

This contest is open only to students who take writing courses during spring and summer terms.

This contest is open only to freshmen and sophomores who are enrolled in writing courses.

The Rainhill Trials were arranged as an open contest that would let them see all the locomotive candidates in action, with the choice to follow.

The Writers of the Future ( WOTF ) contest may be entered quarterly, and is open to authors who have no, or few, professional publications.

Like the WOTF contest, the Illustrators contest is open to amateurs.

The second competition is an open contest that any team can compete in.

This open contest is the largest championship barbecue competition in the world, with the 2007 event attracting 496 teams.

They did not contest the endurance races at Sandown and Bathurst, leaving these open solely to the 5. 0 litre Ford and Holden models.

A Calcutta auction is an open auction held in conjunction with a golf tournament, horse race or similar contest with multiple entrants.

The town council authorized a contest to design and adopt the official " Town Seal " open to all residence and any student enrolled in a public institution within the town boundaries of Amo.

They are chosen via a contest open to any woman between the ages of 19 and 24 who resides in Alberta.

In February 2006, Metro officials chose Randi Miller, a car dealership employee from Woodbridge, Virginia, to record new " doors opening ", " doors closing ", and " please stand clear of the doors, thank you " announcements after winning an open contest to replace the messages recorded by Sandy Carroll in 1996.

He defeated Governor James Michael Curley in an open Senate contest.

The name was decided upon by a contest open to all students with a grand prize of $ 10.

The contest was open to faculty, staff, and students.

The style of warfare after 1863 differed markedly from that of the 1860-61 conflict, in which Māori had taken set positions and challenged the army to an open contest.

Only by attaching copies of the judicial proceedings wherein one party petitions the second party to either contest or accept the act in open court could the instrument be made probative, i. e., imbued with fides publica " public faith and credit ".

The style of warfare after 1863 differed markedly from that of the 1860-61 conflict, in which Māori had taken set positions and challenged the army to an open contest.

The rules for the medley contest are very open, requiring only a minimum and maximum time frame ( between 5: 30 and 7 minutes ) and a minimum of different time signatures that must be played as well as two 3 pace rolls played at the beginning of the tune ( also known as an attack ).

Before the Romulans open fire, Peter challenges the Romulan commander to a ritual fight-to-the-death ( using an obscure but still valid Romulan law predating their schism with the Vulcans ), in which actual battle is prohibited until the contest is resolved.

" Today, Easter Seals holds an annual seal art contest, open to the public.

The CPN ( UC ) set up Samyukta Jana Morcha, with Baburam Bhattarai as its head, as an open front ten contest elections.

An open contest to select suitable designs for the quarter, half dollar, and silver dollar was held and more than 1, 000 designs were submitted.

Named in honor of the conductor George Georgescu ( 1887 – 1964 ), an important figure in the development of Romanian classical music who was born in the Tulcea county, the contest was at first open only to Romanian music school and high school students but began admitting international students in 1995.