Sentence examples for contention before from inspiring English sources

She has been in contention before at the Open.

The Red Sox were in playoff contention before firing Manager Jimy Williams on Aug. 16.

That set up the final restart that Earnhardt used to move into contention before McMurray won the race.

But, as innocuous as they seemed, the caps had become a point of contention before the game.

Hamilton came close to being out of contention before the race even started, when a fuel leak was discovered in his engine.

Alderson indicated that he might not trade Reyes even if the Mets have fallen well out of contention before the trading deadline.

Mr. Roehrkasse added that while the department believed that Mr. Marri "had already received all the process he was due," its lawyers were "studying the court's decision and will respond to Mr. Marri's contentions" before the trial judge.

US officials did not say if the secret Fisa court will hear arguments from the newly established "amicus", who will be empowered by the Freedom Act to contest the government's contentions before the previously non-adversarial court.

The Republicans also turned over the names to the Law Enforcement Department on Friday, but Tom Berlinger, a department spokesman, said there was not enough time to investigate the contentions before Tuesday.

"Not only is this manifestly incorrect," the panel wrote in a pointed footnote, after vacating the deportation order, "but the government's failure to assist the court in evaluating the specifics of petitioner's argument required the court to conduct a special, searching analysis of petitioner's contentions before, during and after oral argument".

With many more parties in contention than ever before, each seat had its own distinct set of interactions, making it more or less a law unto itself.