I formed the impression that he was both relieved and disappointed to find that I offered him no great contest in the control of a cigar.
"It's a contest for the control of resources," said Oronto Douglas, deputy director of Environmental Rights Action, an advocacy group based in neighboring Port Harcourt.
Greenberg kept his check, but Allen thought that Redstone was attempting to keep him on the sidelines in what would become a contest for the control of Paramount, so he sent his check back with a note saying had done nothing to earn it.
Subtly, the play's real star turn falls to Georgie Elgin, Frank's downtrodden, maligned wife, trapped in a contest between the controlling, abrasive Bernie and her desperate husband.
Continuously updating interactive maps for the House and Senate races will follow the contest to control the new Congress.
Whether this happens will be determined in November, not only in the contest between Clinton and Trump but in the contest to control the Senate.
The race for the presidency is too close to call; the contest for control of the Senate is going down to the wire as well.
Jordan was referring not to the anguished search for the perfect words but to the contest for control of the presidential agenda, in which a speech -- or even a phrase like "axis of evil" -- can tip the balance.
The contest for control of the House of Representatives is as close as the margin in the House itself, where the 11-vote Republican majority is the smallest in nearly half a century.
A14 Close Race for Control of House The contest for control of the House of Representatives is as close as the margin in the House itself, and the outcome will be hard to predict, since anticipating House elections requires seat-by-seat calculations.
