Sentence examples for contested running from inspiring English sources

In a bitterly contested running engagement, Junon was badly damaged and suffered heavy casualties before surrendering to the numerically superior British force.

She used the cred acquired from that op-ed and several others to win a hotly contested run for the California Assembly in 1998, largely by decrying Prop.

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.

Nearly every Democrat running in a contested race is running against a Republican who voted for this plan.

The current government's decision to leave the tents in place was hotly contested and runs counter to the stance of the opposition Labor party.

When Chris Froome said cycling is "probably the cleanest sport", I assumed he was talking about fresh needles, and pharmacies will no doubt be hotly contested among ran sackers in the event of the Rapture.

Does Sarkozy's elimination give her a less contested run, or will it expose the unpalatable aspects of her policies more starkly?

After a hotly contested auction running for almost four months, Pernod Ricard, a French drinks giant, emerged victorious.

It has already taken a step in that direction by authorising instant replay on contested home run calls.

Even though the pact between British Telecom (BT and Deutsche Telekomm will save the industry billions of euros, it could reduce the very competition that the auction for 3G licences was supposed to promote.Europe's telecoms firms bid more than $125 billion for 3G licences in fiercely contested, government-run auctions.

Mr Williams said, outside court, in a statement: "This was a hotly contested election run in challenging circumstances.