Sentence examples similar to contested start from inspiring English sources

The conditions, which improved on Thursday, are helpful to athletes who want to keep their muscles supple, but considerably less comfortable for coaches and officials who already are sweating the races that will be contested starting Saturday.

Ribéry appeared in all seven matches France contested, starting six.

It was an evenly-contested start to the match, with both sides converting penalties for an easy two points in the opening 20 minutes.

The advertisement is being released in closely contested states, starting with Minnesota, Oregon and Wisconsin, and will run until Election Day.

But the race was tightly contested from the start.

The question of necessity for the wiretaps has been hotly contested since the start of the prosecution of Mr. Rajaratnam.

Construction on the Hopewell project, the financial feasibility of which was contested from the start, has all but ceased.

The trial thus becomes the first involving the federal death penalty to go before a Manhattan jury in nearly half a century, and the government's decision to seek capital punishment has been bitterly contested from the start.

Marseille won all four of the league matches the team contested with Ben Arfa starting all of them.

The possibility of Ryan possibly securing the nomination at a contested Republican Party convention started when he said in a CNBC interview "there are a lot of people running for president.

Vonn was tied for 14th after Friday's first run, which was delayed by more than two hours for course preparation and contested from a lower start.