Sentence examples for Having contested from inspiring English sources

Having contested Japanese sovereignty over the islands for decades, it has set out to undermine Japan's claim to exercise administrative control.

She is also a tough campaigner; having contested several near-unwinnable seats before fighting Battersea in 2010, when she achieved a larger-than-average swing from Labour.Ms James herself is surely destined for ministerial office.

In 2001, with the party worried about its flagging fortunes in Gujarat, he was appointed chief minister of a state of 50 million people without ever having contested a popular election.

In 1968, at a raucous convention in Chicago that was marred by violence on the city's streets and chaos in the convention hall, Vice President Hubert Humphrey captured the Democratic Party's presidential nomination despite his not having contested a single primary.

This second conviction saw him lose the parliamentary seat he had won at a general election in April 2010 (having contested it from his detention).In November 2011, Mr Fonseka received an additional three-year term for giving a newspaper interview that implicated the president's brother, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, by then the defence secretary, in an allegation of war crimes.

The Niel has historically been the best of the three Arc trials staged three weeks before the race itself, with Arc winners including Bago, Dalakhani and Sinndar having contested both races since 2000, although there is now a six-year gap since Rail Link became the last Niel winner to take the Arc.

CyberBunker has contested that decision ever since.

(Mr. Yasui had contested only the curfew).

Mr. Pelosi has contested the will.

"We should not have contested it".

(The Christie administration has contested them).