Sentence examples for contest what from inspiring English sources

In his ruling, the judge said that Mr Kearns was an unsatisfactory witness, inclined to contest what, on the evidence, could not seriously be contested and to minimise the extent of his alcohol consumption and its consequences.

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Punchline contest: what was a harbor seal doing on the rocks behind Gracie Mansion Friday morning?

So she should be, one might contest, what with all the publication, appreciation, imitation and general acclaim.

What are your impressions of the "Crazy Carry-On Contest?" What are your suggestions for improving the contest?

The game over as a contest, what followed was inevitably going to be an anticlimax.

"Nobody contests what their immediate superior says.

"They used to have little contests, what we call cutting each other," he said.

Conceive of a man whose only function in life was to win pie-eating contests – what a stomach would he develop, large as a steamer trunk".

Leading Democrats, from Mr. Obama to Gov. Jay Nixon, have kept their distance, seeing little to be gained by contesting what strategists dismiss as a Republican straw poll with a foregone conclusion.

He was referring to Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party, the National League for Democracy, was not contesting what it called a sham election and had called for a boycott.