Sentence examples for Legal contest from inspiring English sources

If it comes to that, we can look forward to an entertaining and instructive legal contest.

The dispute over whether the 27 pieces of correspondence should be published has been essentially a legal contest.

He also said a legal contest to an election was never supposed to include manual recounts of ballots.

The decision is also likely to provoke a fierce multimillion-pound legal contest with far-reaching consequences for Britain's transport policy.

But "To a Violent Grave," which was his last book, entangled him in an emotional and legal contest that lasted a decade.

There was far more Schadenfreude than sorrow when, on Tuesday, Robin Thicke and his colleagues were defeated in a legal contest over copyright by the Marvin Gaye estate.

Mr Franken is challenging a state law that forbids the election to be certified until all legal contests are settled.

Nor has it escaped notice that the biggest televised legal contests of the last half decade have involved race matters: Anita Hill and Rodney King.

The dispute is now considered one of the nastiest legal contests in memory, a spectacle almost as ugly as the pollution that prompted it.

Indeed, they will probably have to be over well before then, because the Florida legislature is threatening to appoint its own slate of electors if it appears that the legal contests will continue up to that day.

Meanwhile Palm Beach, the most important county involved in the recounting controversy, continues a hand recount of its 460,000 votes.The battle for hearts and minds is even more important than the legal contests.