21. It would turn into an endurance contest where the dissenters, instead of authentically disagreeing with the majority, will have been coerced. 22. I prefer to leave endurance contests to the athletes and spent a day at Isthmia and Nemea and two full days at Olympia. 23. The longest cup match was the 18-day endurance contest in 1899 between defender Columbia and Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock. 24. :The only way that concept makes sense is for endurance contests , where you win by doing something longer than anyone else. 25. Tempers frayed and flared during an endurance contest that began Tuesday afternoon and did not end until around 2 a . m . Wednesday. 26. The documentary " Hands on a Hardbody " tells the story of a nearly identical 1995 endurance contest in Longview, Texas. 27. The attack began at 11 : 00 a . m ., but what transpired was more of an endurance contest than a battle. 28. But this last phase, like any true endurance contest , brings bone-crushing fatigue, along with sore eyes and a swirling brain. 29. Because, just when a team thinks it's in a 40-minute endurance contest of racehorse basketball, the Gators can change. 30. Exactly how, I couldn't tell you, even after having sat through the morose film, which was a bit of an endurance contest .