Sentence examples for contested in this from inspiring English sources

The Iranian Parliament has 290 seats and all were contested in this election.

The question of whether Vlad Tepes was Bram Stoker's inspiration for Count Dracula has been contested in this magazine.

The states that are really hurting are not that closely contested in this election, he says, and the closely contested states are not really hurting.

This will be the third time the series has been contested in this way; England being the victors on the previous two occasions.

This is the up-for-grabs Third Congressional District, the most populous in Nevada and the most contested in this state's contentious Senate race, sprawling across the dry terrain to form a kind of martini glass around the olive of downtown Las Vegas.

Once the nature of England's progress had been decided by the outcome of Australia's match against Sri Lanka, they were immediately installed as odds-on favourites to reach the final, as they were when the tournament was last contested in this country in 2004.

Several of the states, particularly Missouri, Ohio and Tennessee, are likely to be hotly contested in the presidential elections this November, and spokesmen for several of the Bells said AT&T's announcement was a ploy intended to pressure the Bush administration, which sided with the Bells.

This issue was hotly contested in the years that followed.

Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat who has generally avoided national politics even as he is often mentioned as a potential candidate for president, offered an enthusiastic endorsement of the benefits of the health care measure, which is currently being litigated before the Supreme Court and contested in this year's presidential campaign.

And yet virtually every aspect of this condition, down to its very name, is contested in the medical community.

In this respect, diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia to be included in DSM-5 were greatly contested in the years running up to its publication.