But though they acknowledge the risk of counter-measures, their calculation is that none of Israel's likely foes is technologically advanced enough to beat them in a contest between lance and shield.

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So, for example, the winner of the most-beat-up-bike contest would get a new bike.

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SRMedia Digital Publishing recently ran their sixth annual Beat the Crowd Oscar prediction contest.

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After Holtby denied Brad Richards, Backstrom beat Lundqvist to decide the contest in the fourth round.

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Then in 1996, he beat frontrunner Bob Dole in the same contest.

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Zbontar beat out mathematicians at MIT in a contest to predict the voting in the Eurovision Song Contest (a sort of European version of American Idol).

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One Kentucky poll found that in a head-to-head contest, she'd even beat Rand in his home state of Kentucky.

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It will be an extremely rare 60 year old who can beat an 18 to 25 year old in a contest based solely on reflex and speed of thought.

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Dubliner Paul Griffin out-pointed Bulgarian Wladimir Borov in a featherweight contest while US-based Irishman Oisin Fagan beat Jeff Thomas to win vacant Irish light welterweight title.

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The Middleham handler has now saddled five of the last nine winners of the two-mile contest after the three-year-old kept pace and accelerated in the straight to beat Yankee Doodle by four lengths, with Godolphin's Mastery third, another three-quarters of a length back.

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