Sentence examples for being contested to from inspiring English sources

And, sure enough, with the election results, the shadows are returning.Last month, a preliminary reckoning by the provisional electoral council gave 15 of the 19 Senate seats being contested to Lavalas Family, the party of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the predecessor and mentor of René Préval, the current president.

The party needed just four gains to take Birmingham, but claimed half of the 40 seats being contested to finish with a 34-seat majority.

While the Dutch rearguard was overwhelmed by British numbers, a more equal combat was being contested to the north.

But the idea that cutting the 50p rate costs £3bn is contested (to put it politely), and the other saving is a hypothetical one.

Under rules revised in 2001, games are contested to 11 points rather than 21, with players alternating service every two points.

The idea was to make a collage that utilises patterns that are contested to have been used in the underground railroad, but then also to create my own patterns that are inspired by the lives and deaths of these people.

We have a horse race that will be contested to the finish line.

Many of the descriptions of events are contested, to be sure, but that is always the case.

The migration of juvenile salmonids downriver on the Columbia and Snake Rivers has been contested to be compromised due to the multiple hydropower facilities located on these rivers.

If the seat being contested goes to a liberal, it could tip the balance when the government again pushes to pass the measure.

The elections — in which 18,000 local, regional and national positions also are being contested — amount to a critical test of the Philippines' fragile democracy.