Sentence examples for contested group from inspiring English sources

This game is the third of what will be ultimately be a four-match Champions League contest between these two sides this season, following on from two closely contested Group F encounters that both went in favour of the home side.

Slovenia were beaten to a play-off spot by Slovakia by the time the dust settled on a keenly contested Group F but still had the nous to pick off Strachan's men with relative ease.

Failure to beat North Korea - the lowest ranked team in the tournament - would have been a big blow to Uzbekistan's chances of progressing from the tightly contested Group B, which also includes China and Saudi Arabia.

During his first year in power, without warning, China suddenly proclaimed a so-called ADIZ (air defence identification zone) that covers an expansive maritime area separating China from Japan and includes a hotly contested group of tiny islands, known as the Senkakus (Japanese) or Diaoyu (Chinese), which have been under largely undisputed Japanese control since 1895.

However, two defeats on the spin in what promises to be a tightly contested group would deliver a blow to Welsh chances of qualifying for Brazil.

BEIJING — China drove home its opposition to Japanese control of a contested group of islands on Tuesday, with angry protests in dozens of cities and a warning from its defense minister that "further actions" were possible.

The plan could also help Mr. Bush with Hispanic Americans, who are shaping up as one of the most hotly contested groups of voters in the 2004 presidential race, especially in Southern and Western states.

Japan has opened up a new front in its territorial disputes with China and South Korea, after the education ministry instructed teachers to describe two contested groups of islands as integral parts of Japanese territory.

In the previous three editions they contested the group stage was successfully negotiated, but defeat at the first knockout stage followed on each occasion.

However, the role of TP53 in response to TBAs like PAC has been contested: Some groups reported no correlation between TP53 mutational status and sensitivity to PAC [14]; [15], while others observed that lack of TP53 activity resulted in increased chemosensitivity to PAC [16]; [16].

With Spain clear favourites for Group B and Tahiti obvious minnows, this contest was always going to be the most fiercely contested of the group - and so it proved.