Sentence examples for Government contests from inspiring English sources

"You are the best," she replies.The best Mr Rajaratnam can hope for at this juncture is the chance to clear his name by proving he did not make $63.8m from insider information, as the government contests.

The PNG court has ruled that Australia has effective control of the detention centre, though the Australian government contests this and has consistently said it is not a party to the court proceedings.

A temporary injunction has been granted to Conroy, which means that for now, medical marijuana patients can keep growing at home, while the government contests the decision.

The Keating government contests the 1993 federal election, and in an animated video Kerry O'Brien, Michael Kroger, Robert Ray and Antony Green report on the incoming results in scat over ukelele ("Antony Green").

Ms. Velázquez had won a government contest to identify Mexico's most useless red tape, and President Felipe Calderón was on hand to present her prize.

In today's ruling, Judge Maurice Kay turned down appeals from six human rights groups and the Belgian government contesting the British government's finding that General Pinochet is medically unfit to be extradicted to Spain to stand trial on torture charges.

Using the plans as guides, Módulo eventually won the government contest's $350,000 first prize from among hundreds of competitors, providing the seed capital for the company's international expansion.

That could cut its emissions by up to 90%, making Peterhead by far the cleanest gas plant in the world.Peterhead is one of two preferred bidders in a government contest that aims to kick-start Britain's adoption of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies.

At the beginning of the 1800s, during the Napoleonic wars, French pastry chef Nicolas Appert won a government contest by coming up with a way of cooking foods in glass hermetic glass jars, preventing it from spoiling, making it a perfect way of feeding the troops.

His government forbade contests in the circus involving bloodshed, banned capital punishment, reduced taxes, and accorded permission to slaves to bring civil complaints against unjust masters.

The government hotly contests Greenpeace's claim that, because oil degrades far more slowly in freezing waters, a Mexican Gulf-style oil spill would mean calamity for the fragile environment.