Sentence examples for attempting to contest from inspiring English sources

Instead, he declared a state of emergency on Tuesday after weeks of attempting to contest the result of the vote.

Play Records ended up attempting to contest and reopen that settlement agreement though, and it wasn't until 2015 that those efforts were abandoned.

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

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.

PAGE A9 CAMPAIGNS DISCLOSE BUNDLER DATA The campaigns of Senators Barack Obama and John McCain attempted to contest to one-up each other, saying they would make public information about their top money collectors.

Carmody's conversation with Byrne and Boddice took place after he attempted to contest the latter's appointment to the court of disputed returns after the LNP had flagged a legal challenge to a Labor victory in the seat of Ferny Grove during a cliffhanger election.

Opening leadership behavior is referred to leader behavior that increases variance in subordinates' behaviors through encouraging them to do things differently and to experiment, giving subordinates' opportunity for autonomous thinking and executing, and underpinning subordinates' attempts to contest a current situation.

Dr. Chee Soon Juan (PhD, U of Georgia) was fired by NUS from his position as a lecturer in neuropsychology in 1993 after he joined an opposition party; when he attempted to contest his dismissal, he, too, was sued for defamation, imprisoned, bankrupted, barred from leaving the country.

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.

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.