Sentence examples for an attempt to contest from inspiring English sources

In 1580, this story was hyped up by Elizabeth I's court mathematician and occultist John Dee (born of Welsh parents), in an attempt to contest the Spanish claim to American territory.

The FBI's last-minute submission of new material has drawn fire from Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ), who calls it an attempt "to contest and challenge the independent NAS panel's draft findings".

The symbolic reversals were an attempt to contest ranking by hukou at the retailer but had little effect in repositioning migrants in the store hierarchies, as they underscored the very practices farming and manual labor that relegated them to bad jobs.

An attempt to contest the seat of Richmond in Yorkshire in 1990 for Labour ended in ignominy when Abrahams presented a woman, Anthea Bailey, as his wife in an attempt to woo the selectors.

The Republican Party of Arkansas, still controlled by the Minstrel faction, issued a statement denouncing Brooks' attempt to contest the election, which was published in the Little Rock Republican on October 8, 1873 and signed by all the major members of the party, including Clayton.

Organizers will also attempt to contest a men's giant slalom.

Earlier this week, an election tribunal ruled that his attempt to contest the Chitral constituency seat - three other seats he had applied to contest had already been rejected - was invalid.

The Farc's last attempt to contest elections after a peace process was during the late 1980s, when they jointly founded – with the Communist party – the Unión Patriótica.

State politicians have long had a "gentleman's agreement" that candidates would not attempt to contest each other's signatures and throw each other off the ballot.

Their response [PDF] was one of those published on the Senator's website, but given how transparent they have been after their initial attempt to contest Trevor Eckhart's findings backfired, there isn't much new material to cover.

His defense was also unusual in that he made no attempt to contest that Massino was the Bonanno boss, instead stressing the murders in the case took place before he took over and that Massino himself "showed a love of life...because the murders ceased".