As for the utilization factor of contention period,, it can be obtained by counting the total number of contention attempts observed in the contention period, divided by the total number of observed contention opportunities on which the measurement is taken in the contention period.
Since the absence of an immediate response in the following UL-MAP will be regarded as a failed contention, can be obtained by counting the total number of responses observed in the following UL-MAP, divided by the total number of observed contention attempts on which the measurement is taken in the contention period.
Some points of contention include views on which agencies should play central roles in overseeing financial companies whose troubles could pose problems for the overall system, and whether to create a new agency to protect consumers from abusive mortgages or credit cards.
Mr. Payton argued that the cutoff score on a written examination to define the pool of qualified applicants had a disparate impact on minorities -- a contention to which the city conceded.
None of these will feel out of contention on a course which lends itself to wild variations of scoring.
"It's nice to be somewhere in contention and it's a score on which to build for the rest of the week – it's the perfect type of start really".
And yet we seemed to know what was going on, which books were in contention and who was supporting which author and why.
In 1996, 15 years after his first shot at the Kentucky Derby, Mr. Black went back there, on In Contention, which was out of contention, coming in 16th.
They also hope that someone like Jason Isringhausen of Oakland becomes available, depending on which teams decide they are out of contention.
I turn now to the ground on which the Court squarely rests its holding: the contention that there is no rational basis for the law here under attack.
