Sentence examples for contested events from inspiring English sources

One senior party figure outside Victoria, a person normally positive about Shorten, was brutal in assessment after the bitterly contested events of Thursday night.

Between 430 and 627 civilians died in these 90 contested events.

Among the contested events in the 1974 bombing is the emergency services' response time, which the coroner was told may have been wrongly recorded, hiding the possibility that insufficient warning was given to evacuate the pubs before the devices exploded.

The parade was one of the last and most contested events of the weeklong World Pride Roma 2000, an international gay festival that was timed to coincide with a Holy Year of the Roman Catholic Church and that the Vatican fiercely opposed.

THE CUTE-OFF: Spectators unaccustomed to high levels of cute are advised to shield their eyes and try not to squee during this hotly contested event, the ultimate cutie contest.

Though "A Separation" is not as formally self-conscious, turning as it does on competing views and after-the-fact reconstructions of a contested event, it works in a similar vein.

Justin Gatlin, also from America, finished fourth (5.71) in the rarely contested event.

He'd contested 163 events on tour without winning a single one, but creamed a 7-iron to two inches at the last to break his duck in spectacular style.

Rush and Coulon contested several events, notably winning the single-scull and pair-oar races, and while the prize money they received was modest, their performances were noted by Sydney rowers who quickly challenged them to private matches for large stakes.

Instead of pricks smashing windows because the result of a fairly contested sports event displeased them, they were now righteously indignant freedom fighters refusing to bow to the po-po.

On both sides of the Irish border, this year's centenary of the Easter Rising will be a highly contested historical event.