Sentence examples for being contested on from inspiring English sources

And unlike some special House elections, this one is being contested on explicitly local issues.

The bill would have no effect on the statewide primaries also being contested on June 23.

He said half of the area was still being contested on Friday in "hit-and-run battles between the two sides," which both held territory there.

While it is hard to believe — and probably against N.F.L. rules — other sports were being contested on Sunday as well, the highlight of them involving (believe it or not) golf.

Pitman's conviction is also being contested on the grounds that it was on the basis of joint enterprise with others – a legal principle that the UK's supreme court recently ruled had been wrongly interpreted for more than 30 years.

The search for jockeys has been made more difficult because the Grade I Shuvee is being contested on Saturday at Belmont Park, and most of the top New York riders are committed to horses.

Matches up to the semi-final were contested on a one-off basis with the exception of the semi-finals which were contested over two-legs, with a match at each team's home ground.

Labour parliamentary selections are contested on the basis of one member one vote.

The last seat to be elected, Thirsk and Malton, was contested on 27 May because one of the candidates died.

Leaving aside that neither Brexit nor Trump was exclusively a populist vote, both elections were contested on the basis of a winner-takes-all principle, with one winner and one loser.

For one thing, the competition is standing up; for another, it is contested on an eight-inch square pad from which arms can push and be pushed but cannot leave the pad.