Sentence examples for contested a competition from inspiring English sources

I've no doubt that the 2012 Guardian First Book Award will be as hotly contested a competition as last year, and I'm very much looking forward to reading the submitted titles".

Wicklow Warrior, which looked as if it could crush the competition in the fifth race, was rushed to the front and contested a hot pace, for no reason that I could see.

He has never contested a single handicap.

He contested a failing grade.

Ottoman rule over the region remained contested by competition from Russia, which, as an Eastern Orthodox empire with claim to a Byzantine heritage, exercised notable influence over locals.

The closely linked history of both countries means it has always been a fiercely contested competition - and it was the source of cricket's first major controversy in 1932-33.

✒Finally, the winner of our hotly contested Daftest Assertion competition.

Van Gundy settled his hotly contested point guard competition by naming Mark Jackson as the starter and Charlie Ward as the first backup.

Evra appeared in nine of the ten matches the team contested in the competition.

The National Corn Growers Association ruled eight times that Mr. Childs's yield per acre had won his category of its hotly contested annual competitions.

It's clearly a physically strenuous activity that requires skill, and there are hotly, indeed sweatily, contested competitions between different bell-ringers.