1.   Clinton was playing trumpet in his high school band when Dole was matching wits against the lions of the Congress.

2.   And indeed, the stories of drivers and passengers matching wits over fares are legendary.

3.   Bryant has chosen to match wits with a veritable pantheon of major drilling contractors, independent oil companies and well-heeled corporate defense lawyers.

4.   Chess players matched wits in Holyoke Center, mimes danced near the MBTA subway stop, and homeless people asked for change.

5.   Even my mother knows them, either because she remembers them from my childhood or because she has learned them to match musical wits with my children.

6.   Had the script allowed these two personalities to match wits in a brutal game of one-upmanship, Death to Smoochy might have worked.

7.   He has matched wits with the best thoroughbreds and the finest trainers.

8.   He is always prepared, they say, and he has the intellectual candlepower to match wits with anybody.

9.   In short, the aviation sector will require state-led regulatory institutions on both national and transnational levels that can match wits with consolidated global corporations.

10.   In the new movie, Jarod, this time as a government agent, matches wits with a madman pretender out for revenge.