Sentence examples for contest the grounds from inspiring English sources

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He has insisted that he will contest the grounds for his suspension when his case is reviewed by Labour's national executive committee.

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Jeffrey Burke QC, acting on behalf of the certification officer, is being asked by Coyne to order a rerun of the contest on the grounds that, according to the union's rules, it should not have been held.

Will he persuade his wife to pull her horse Rafalca out of the Olympics dressage contest on the grounds that the International Olympic Committee refused to hold a minute of silence for the eleven Israeli athletes murdered by the Palestinian Black September group at the 1972 Munich Olympics?

The Yankees charged the outnumbered rebels, but the rebels "gallantly met the onset, falling back slowly to a narrow lane, stubbornly contesting the ground," reported an unidentified Confederate in a pamphlet published during the war.

And specifically he is seeking to contest the political ground now occupied by the "big society".

Mr Brown has never done anything like this before: he urged Labour to contest the centre ground as a young moderniser, and helped inspire the party's centrist election campaigns in 1997, 2001 and 2005.

Twain tried for years to get his contest off the ground.

Just last weekend, the Tigers held Georgia Tech, a triple-option-preaching team averaging 257.3 yards per contest on the ground, to a measly 95.

His "sweet little girl," be she Alison Krause or Sandra Scheuer, was not revolutionary, nor was she "contest ing the ground" with the National Guard.

The man who had spent years trying to get his most unnatural contest off the ground "was both unwilling and unable to turn out a work of fiction designed to fit an abstract and artificial scheme".

*When he was a boy in 1910, Willie Ratner, a future boxing writer, paid either 10 cents for a pack of cigarettes containing the Wagner, or nothing and obtained it in a flipping contest, off the ground where an adult smoker discarded it, or in a trade.

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