Sentence examples for contested to find from inspiring English sources

Later in the same piece, Chait offered this thought: "You have to go back to 1998, when Republican control of the House was not seriously contested, to find an election that had no serious effect on Washington's ability to pass laws".

Charlotte Moore, BBC controller of TV Channels and iPlayer, said: "BBC1's new Saturday night show will bring families together to celebrate Britain's love of musical theatre, combining singing, performance and dance in a hotly contested search to find a new group.

It took 66 years for the British Open, first contested in 1860, to find its way to Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club, south of Blackpool and north of Liverpool on England's western coast.

A woman contested to be paramount chief, and even though she didn't win, she contested.

At the end of this week, the 2009 Loebner prize will be contested in Brighton, to try to find a computer program that can fool a human that it is another human over five minutes of interaction through a screen.

A consortium of news organizations, including national newspapers and television networks, spent months after the 2000 debacle reviewing contested ballots in an effort to find out who actually won.

IT'S hard to find a hotly contested primary on Long Island, but it would be hard to find any campaign more hostile than the one between two Democrats vying for the seat being vacated by Rick Lazio in the Second Congressional District in Suffolk County.

Female prisoners bickered with the guards and contested everything, and the guards seemed to find this more treacherous than having to subdue riots.

VICE News travels to the contested Mexican state of Michoacan to find out whether the power balance will shift following his arrest.

In a tightly contested third period, the Russians were unable to find a way past the disciplined Finnish defence.

This has led Choi and Majumdar (2013) to call social entrepreneurship an 'essentially contested concept', for which it is virtually impossible to find a common definition.