The Biden operation feels more like an early primary enterprise than a campaign in the final week of an intensely contested presidential race.
The status of state media between Russia and its western adversaries has become an intensely contested political football in recent months.
The late David Foster Wallace's unfinished final novel, The Pale King, is set for publication in the UK next year following an intensely contested auction between six British publishers.
It is undeniably a bold move to launch crystal into an intensely contested market with a number of well-entrenched players.
For a day the narrow channel of the world's largest coal port, the Port of Newcastle in Australia, became a nonviolent but intensely contested battlefield.
Lying in an underground makeshift hospital near the intensely contested neighborhood of Khalidiya, a fighter, Bilal, who like most people gave only his first name for safety, said he cried when he saw the damage at the Waleed mosque.
While a Kansas judge has never lost a retention election, these have become intensely contested across the country in recent years, including in Kansas, and any justice who wants to be reëlected must raise money for his or her campaign and wage it earnestly.
It's one of the reasons why data visualization is emerging as a powerful information force in the crowded, intensely contested world of social media.
But an analysis of the contributions to Mr. Pataki of $10,000 or more shows a pattern of giving that is, in essence, a road map of lucrative state contracts, important political jobs, intensely contested legislative matters and complicated regulatory affairs.
There were two highlights in Vlore: a park along the main drag, Bulevardi Vlore-Skele, where old men smoked like chimneys around intensely contested games of chess and dominoes and warmly welcomed a visitor with a camera.
By contrast, just 97,000 Democrats voted early in the 2004 presidential primary, which was not as intensely contested.
