Sentence examples for contested off from inspiring English sources

The South China Sea, one of the world's most important waterways, has been contested off and on for centuries.

When the Cup was contested off Fremantle in 1987, Murray was the skipper and principal designer of Kookaburra III, which ended up winning the defender series.

Ellison and his rival Ernesto Bertarelli had been locked in court since July 2007, and for a while it seemed as if the result of this race was going to be contested off the water.

It hopes to have the app ready by the time the Cup is contested off San Francisco next year.

But the result was a bitterly contested stand-off that lasted for eight months.

And who decides on the highly contested trade-offs between privacy and security, efficiency and equity?This report will explain that gloom, fear and optimism are all justified.

Rahm Emanuel has won a second term as Mayor of Chicago, after a hotly contested run-off battle with his fellow Democrat, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia.

The Raptors have won just a game more but sit three spots ahead of them in a tightly contested play-off race, the first time in years where the East has been comparable, and even superior, to the West.

Picture the scene: after a compelling regular season and a keenly contested play-off series, one game to decide the destination of English soccer's biggest prize the Premier League Cup.

For the first time this series on Strictly (Saturday and Sunday, BBC1) there was a hotly contested dance-off where it wasn't obvious who was going home (Jamelia versus Kirsty Gallacher).

In the Culinary Olympics, in which more than 50 nations send their finest chefs to compete in a hotly contested cook-off every four years, Sweden took gold in October 2012 with its dish of spice-crusted red deer saddle.