Sentence examples for contested party from inspiring English sources
The retiring human rights commissioner, Tim Wilson, has won a hotly contested party battle to be selected as the Liberal candidate in the Victorian seat of Goldstein.
PARIS — After more than a week of wrangling over the outcome of its hotly contested party election, the leadership of France's center-right opposition party on Monday confirmed Jean-François Jean-François Copéing protégé of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, as the party's new chief, staring down a last-minute legal challenge from his centrist rival, François Fillon.
The Unconventional Wisdom Look for at least one contested party convention to choose the nominee for the Democrats and/or Republicans.
Mr Copé, who claimed victory in a contested party leadership election, may well find it hard to stay on in the job.
Although he previously held up Indiana as a must-win state, the senator from Texas argued Monday that he could sustain a loss and still force a contested party convention and wrest the nomination from Trump in Cleveland.
A similar reminder of the importance of electability will now fall squarely into the laps of Republicans shortly before what is expected to be a contested party convention for them this summer.
Benn had contested the party leadership when Harold Wilson resigned in 1976, but was never likely to win while the vote was confined to MPs.
At a bitterly contested Labour party conference in Blackpool in 1982, he indulged in an act of political treachery for which he was bound to be discovered.
Of the 29 rural single-seat districts that were contested, the party's bag fell from 23 to six; overall the LDP suffered a net loss of 27 seats (see chart).
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.
He also contested the party leadership (unsuccessfully) twice, and stood as the Lib Dem candidate for London Mayor in 2004.
