Sentence examples for contest the role from inspiring English sources

But Marshall stood aside as deputy Senate president after Shorten prevailed upon him not to contest the role.

In West Yorkshire, the chairman of the county's police authority, Mark Burns-Williamson, will contest the role.

To contest the role of IFN I in TB, we harnessed lethally TB-susceptible mice.

Yesterday the chairman of the Guardian First Book award judges, the paper's literary editor Claire Armitstead, said the contest showed the role of the £10,000 prize in "encouraging readers to think beyond conventional categories at what really constitutes flair and promise in the changing world of books".

Mr Weschler, a 52-year-old hired after spending $5.3m in charity auctions for two meals with Mr Buffett, and Mr Combs, aged 43, have been given investment portfolios to manage in what is widely seen as a contest for the role of chief investment officer.

But Maḥmūd (reigned 998 1030) went no farther: his dynasty paid great deference to the caliphate's legitimating power, and he made no bid to contest the Būyids' role as its protectors.

A political party that wants to build a durable majority should listen to both sides [in the contests over the role of government] and seek policies that acknowledge the legitimacy of their concerns.

No one would contest the defining roles assigned to Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, but if you felt that the artistic peaks of jazz were attained after 1940 – from the late 50s particularly – then the series became a kind of pre-history requiring numerous extra episodes to redress a distortion that gave more prominence to Tommy Dorsey than Charles Mingus.

In an odd twist, Governance for Owners was recently charged with voting BlackRock's shares in the proxy contest over splitting the role of chairman and chief executive at JPMorgan Chase.

Even if economic power has become more "multipolar," no actual state contests the American role on the planet in a serious way.

A picture caption yesterday with an article about the takeover contest for Unocal misstated the role of Mark McKinnon.