Word Finder - comers

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One in a race who is catching up to others and shows promise of winning.

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One who is catching up in some contest and has a likelihood of victory.

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One who arrives.

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The champ will face all comers.

Until 1858 the London examinations were open only to students in affiliated colleges, and the teachers had no share in the appointment of the examiners or indetermining the curricula for examinations; in 1858 the examinations were thrown open to all comers, and no requirements were insisted on with regard to courses of study except for degrees in the faculty of medicine.

It was dedicated with great ceremony, probably between 430 and 420 B.C., and the famous Timotheus, son of Thersander, carried off the magnificent prize for a lyric ode against all comers.

She beat all comers for a coveted Oscar in the Best Short Film, Live Action Category.

The world champion table football team, challenge all comers!

You've got to be so precise with your lines and braking to actually make the thing go round the comers.

At the same time, we need to be prepared to take all comers.

Ages went from 20 45, with people from a lifetime of turf management to relative new comers having 2- 3 years experience.

The evening begins with new comers to the Leeds live scene, 7 Hertz.

This section describes some of the other festivals and customs new- comers to Britain will meet.

Beside the usual bargains there were special cut-rate " comers " for the opening week - simply unbeatable prices on luxury items.

The funftions of the champion were to ride into Westminster Hall at the coronation banquet, and challenge all comers to impugn the king's title (see Champion).

These are only a few of the dynamic actors who lend their talents and beauty to the All My Children cast list, and many more up and comers are on the way as this soap opera continues to thrive and expand with new generations of viewers.

There is a great deal of competing and ego clashing between the three up and comers, particularly between Josh and Chad.

Fans of the show will be thrilled to visit places only mentioned in the series and new comers will be amazed at the diverse and lavish universe Whedon has created.

New comers to Whedon's universe breathe passionate life into his characters and quickly gain the adoration, whether they are good or evil, of the audience.

First one man was trained for the work by himself, then he was sent to a district for six months, where, (for £8 a year) he taught gratis the children and young people (in fact, all comers) reading and Christian principles.

Of the 124,631, who in 1900 were foreign-born, Germans were greatly predominant (40,648, or 32-6%), with the Bohemians (13,599, or 10.9%) and Irish (13,120, or 10.6%) next in importance, the Bohemians being later comers than the Irish.

The cuneiform system of writing Semitic. w as still in process of growth when it was borrowed influence p g and adapted by the new comers, and the Semitic Babylonian language was profoundly influenced by the older language of the country, borrowing its words and even its grammatical usages.

But with the return of the warmer season each male selects a territory, which he fiercely defends against all comers, especially against intruders of his own species and sex, and to which he invites all females, until the nest is filled with ova.

These were late comers to the New World forced to the frontier to find unclaimed lands.

Inside these walls the Bijapur kings bade defiance to all comers.

In 1683 the Dutch reduced the sultan to vassalage, built the fort of Speelwijk and monopolized the port, which had previously been free to all comers; and for more than a century afterwards Bantam was one of the most important seats of commerce in the East Indies.

There is some more we could do to welcome new comers.