Sentence examples for contest for control from inspiring English sources

"The two are in continual contest for control".

Democrats have a financial advantage in the contest for control of the House of Representatives.

Ms. Norton's calls went out to voters in critical districts in last year's contest for control of the Colorado Senate.

In a grueling contest for control of Nassau's government, the Republicans are struggling to hang on to the county executive's post and to recapture the Legislature.

Under the deal, Aquila will end its proxy contest for control of the board and will withdraw all litigation and arbitration, Quanta said.

With three days to go before polling day, the contest for control in the Senate will therefore be fought over 10 battleground states.

Soccer, however many are on the field, is essentially an ongoing series of contests for control within a larger struggle.

This time, the possibility of an insidious "enemy within" has not been linked to political forces contesting for control of mainstream politics, which was often invoked to justify the excesses of previous hunts for fifth columnists.

Given the agonizingly close presidential race and almost equally tight contests for control of the Senate and the House of Representatives, governing will not be easy under the best of circumstances.

Contests for control is only part of the firm's business, usually they try to prevent trouble by calling up stockholders, asking if they've received their annual reports; if there's anything the firm can do for them, etc. Georgeson & Co. has seven branches scattered around the country; employs over a hundred solicitors during the annual meeting season-March-May.

The salvos of attack ads and cries of foul reverberate daily here in the Sixth Congressional District, one of the battleground contests for control of the House, where an armada of outside special-interest groups are outspending the candidates themselves in the most expensive Congressional race in state history.