It's clearly a physically strenuous activity that requires skill, and there are hotly, indeed sweatily, contested competitions between different bell-ringers.
In the most elaborate of the three tales, the men in one dilapidated post-industrial suburb obsessively catch finches and train them to sing in fiercely contested competitions that are the pride of the neighborhood — and the bird-centric activity seems to structure and govern the neighborhood as a spontaneous, populist, autonomous, anarchist quasi-utopia.
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".
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.
B3 SPORTSSATURDAY D1-8 OBITUARIES C16 ARTS B7-19 World Series Ratings Hurt Fox Thanks to the lowest-rated World Series on record, Fox has seen its chances of repeating as the winner of television's most-contested competition, the ranking as top-rated network among viewers between the ages of 18 and 49, shrink drastically.
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.
✒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.
Superfinalen ("The Super Final") is a former Norwegian association football competition contested between the previous season's champions of the Norwegian Premier League and the Norwegian Football Cup.
