Sentence examples for He had contested from inspiring English sources

On three previous occasions he had contested a semi-final on centre court and lost.

"The common man is fed up," said Pawan Kumar, extracting from his shirt a wad of paper documenting a fine that he had contested, desperately and fruitlessly.

Hoy, in contrast, had dominated the keirin, winning it four of the five times he had contested it at these championships.

Having been elected uninterruptedly since 1924, he had become the "Father of the House of Commons". He had contested 19 elections and been successful in 14 since he was first elected in 1900.

Addressing the media late on Wednesday night, Rudd said he had contested the prime ministership again because "I simply do not have it in my nature to stand idly by and allow an Abbott government to come to power in this country by default".

By this time he had contested the safe Labour seat of Batley and Morley in 1970, acquired the post of chairman of the Conservative Candidates Associationn (1972-76) and twice stood against Labour's Max Madden in the two 1974 elections in Sowerby, on both occasions losing by a handful of votes.

He has contested the presidential election three times and lost, and ended up in court.

In truth, that was more typical of his performances in the 17 Opens he has contested.

Sunday's ballot - called a year ahead of schedule - was the fifth he has contested.

Federer has avoided a shutout in 99.9 percent of the sets and in 99.6 percent of the matches he has contested.

He has contested the results of the violation for Argenta, arguing that environmental factors may have caused a false positive.