Sentence examples for contest waged from inspiring English sources

In his Inaugural Address, Jefferson talked about "the contest of opinion," a contest waged, in his lifetime, in the pages of the newspaper.

There was no trace at all here of the equally modest conservative primary contest waged against the President by Representative John M. Ashbrook of Ohio.

Once, runs Mr. Graham's tale, it was a contest waged, necessarily but regret tably to the death, between gentlemen who, when faced with a common need, were as likely as not to unite to meet it.

But last Thursday -- after the long bitter proxy contest waged by Walter B. Hewlett had finally ended, with a court ruling in favor of the company and a concession by Mr. Hewlett -- Mr. Sacconaghissueded a buy recommendation on Hewlett-Packard, his first in nearly two years.

However as a legal pluralist Cover argued that law is constantly constructed through a contest waged among various norm-generating communities [ 35].

A slugfest between SEIU and AFSCME in Vermont would be a throwback to the frenzied spending contests waged by the same two unions over home-based workers in 2004-2005.

Where the contest is waged on that ground, Moscow has the advantage.

But there's another, equally weighty contest being waged at the school, and it concerns nothing less than the future of higher education itself.

But there is such a contest being waged between two Republicans who are seeking a State Senate seat in a district that includes parts of Brooklyn and Staten Island.

As a result, the contest being waged over it has taken on a far greater importance for both Mr. Mugabe and his supporters and for those who hope to see him unseated.

Few local political races are laced with the kind of unvarnished acrimony seen in a primary contest being waged in the 32nd Senate District in the South Bronx between an incumbent state senator who is one of the Democratic Party's most loyal soldiers and his predecessor, an ardent enemy of the party organization.