Sentence examples for contested like from inspiring English sources

That means looking for places where sovereignty is lightly held and rarely contested, like rural communities.

Table tennis matches will be hotly contested, "like double sessions every day", as Juan Mata puts it.

The Dalai Lama's reincarnation (if any, for the 14th says this is an open question) may well be contested, like that of another senior lama, the Panchen.

Penney has been doing so under the JCP Everyday line, and has also been selling other Martha Stewart items in categories that are not contested, like party supplies and window treatments.

What's not to love?" RULES OF THE GAME BMX racing in Beijing will be contested like a motorcycle supercross: eight riders swathed in padded jumpsuits and helmets will hurl themselves on clown-size bikes to the end of a 370-meter dirt track (350 meters for the women).

For example, Latinos are concentrated in states where the electoral votes aren't contested, like California and Texas, Lopez told The Huffington Post.

And while the political clout of Latino voters still lags considerably behind their numbers, it's still growing rapidly, and posing a threat to GOP competitiveness in traditionally contested states like Colorado, Nevada, Florida and Texas, which, left unchecked, will likely tilt most future presidential elections in the Democrats' favour.

But his tentative schedule includes stops in closely contested states like Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan.

It also emerges on nonscientific but factually contested issues, like the claim that President Obama is a Muslim.

(Sudan's main involvement in health care in contested areas like this has been to strafe hospitals).

The off-key nature was evident in the breakdown being contested more like a bundle in the kindergarten playpen than the all-in mixed martial arts normally expected of the Springboks.