Sentence examples for contested open from inspiring English sources

Open seats will change that dynamic, though Davis warned that Republicans were able to retain a hotly contested open seat in a Georgia special election earlier this year.

And Democratic candidates running for contested open Senate seats across the region will probably get a boost with Mr. Edwards on the ticket.

As he runs against Republican George Allen for a hotly contested open Senate seat, he acknowledges the "wrenching" cuts to social welfare programs he made as a recession-era governor.

Not only is the presidential race neck and neck here, but Lansing is the home of the Democratic challenger in one of the nation's tightest races for the United States Senate, and the center of one of the country's most fiercely contested open House seats.

In North Dakota's hotly contested open seat match-up between Republican Rep. Rick Berg and Democrat Heidi Heitkamp, for example, the most recent poll was released in July and was sponsored by the North Dakota Democratic Party.

After a closely contested opening quarter of an hour, Giants made a breakthrough on the back of a penalty when smart work on the left edge put Murphy in.

I'm sure you didn't mean to open such a can of worms with this question, my inquisitive foreign friend, but this is a highly contested subject.

But who are these locals, given that the term is already contested and open to interpretation?

Rezendes approaches another lawyer, testy advocate Mitch Garabedian Stanley Tuccii), who has been doggedly working for a serious action to be contested in open court.

Trailing by 0-2, 0-30, on Saturday, she won the next four points and seldom stopped winning them from there, transforming what could have been a hotly contested Australian Open final into a one-woman demonstration of power, depth and — yes — poise.

But they contested an open and entertaining game in the April sunshine at Vicarage Road, with Heidar Helguson crashing an inviting chance into the side netting inside the opening minute after a teasing cross from the ever-involved Taarabt.