Sentence examples for capable of contesting from inspiring English sources

The protest movement that burst into the open then is still without a uniting, representative party capable of contesting elections.

Just as the Indignados, who occupied Spanish squares in their millions in the summer of 2011, inspired the global Occupy movement, it was in Spain, too, that this energy was first channelled into political movements capable of contesting elections, such as the leftwing populist party Podemos.

Froome was expected to work for his leader when Wiggins took the leader's jersey, but beat him in a key time trial, then rode for him at a crucial summit finish when he was probably capable of contesting the overall win.

(That failed reconstruction program again!) Indeed, with Iran now able to meddle in Iraq in ways it couldn't have when Saddam Hussein was in power, that country will be more capable of contesting U.S. hegemony in the region.

After the dynastic head of the Red Turbans suspiciously died in 1367 while a guest of Zhu, there was no one left who was remotely capable of contesting his march to the throne, and he made his imperial ambitions known by sending an army toward the Yuan capital Dadu (present-day Beijing) in 1368.

But they never looked capable of making a contest of it once Pothas had gone to the fifth ball of the day, caught at first slip by Paul Horton with only a run added.

"In youth, it lies in the possession of a body capable of enduring all kinds of contests... while the young man is himself a pleasant delight to behold").

("Each age has its own beauty," Aristotle wrote. "In youth, it lies in the possession of a body capable of enduring all kinds of contests... while the young man is himself a pleasant delight to behold").

Alan was forever arguing some involved point; Bernard, always capable of doing two things at once, would be contesting the point while correcting proofs.

And the attractions of voting for a third party, a party capable of challenging the sterility of the two-party contest, will become ever greater.

Such a benchmark has been recently used to promote a "contest" to survey the quality of different tools capable of predicting TF binding sites of bacterial and eukaryotic genomes.