Sentence examples for contested district from inspiring English sources

It has long been recognised as such; Sangin was a known tension point when we arrived in Helmand in 2006 and has remained a keenly contested district between us and the Taliban in the intervening years.

Here in Allentown, the most closely contested district in a major swing state, a Bush supporter independently took out a billboard reading simply, "Bush Cheney 04 -- One Nation Under God".

At least 39 of the deaths recorded by the agency resulted from a February 27 airstrike on a busy market in Nihm, a contested district north of Sanaa.

Holding office in a closely contested district, Kefalas is expected to be targeted by Colorado Republicans during his 2008 re-election bid, which he formally announced in January 2008.

WASHINGTON ― Adding another wrinkle in the dramatic race that could decide control of the Virginia House of Delegates, a Virginia court on Wednesday rejected a legal challenge in the contested District 94 seat.

An unsuccessful City Council candidate has filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court asking that the results of the city's bitterly contested District 2 election be nullified and a new election held.

The number of closely contested districts has shrunk considerably in the past decade.

Together, the county organizations raised tens of millions of dollars for the November legislative election, sending much of it to a few closely contested districts around the state.

And twice — even during the Democratic Congressional landslide of 2006 — he managed to hang on as other Republicans in contested districts were sent home.

The convention did grudgingly provide a few minutes of cable-only air time yesterday to some of the Republican candidates from hotly contested districts.

The current system — wherein a vast majority of seats are safely red or blue and noncompetitive, with only a handful of fiercely contested districts — disappears.