Sentence examples for contesting as from inspiring English sources

Rakhi Sawant, a Bollywood "item girl" whose main role in films is to pose with little on, is contesting as an independent in Mumbai.

Riding on NTR's popularity, TDP-affiliated candidates (contesting as independents, since the party was still unregistered) won a large majority of seats in the 1983 elections to the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly.

A high court judge reviewed an appeal contesting as too lenient the resultant ban on child work for three years, but solicitors for the GMC and Prof Southall had said striking-off would be "disproportionate and draconian" and could demoralise professionals in the child protection field.

Okay okay, so Zuckerberg probably doesn't mean the update in the obvious, personal, way … But still the association is interesting, as at this point there's little contesting as to whether the Facebook founder is the king of social networking and maybe even the Internet.

It's not a likability contest as much as it's about chemistry.

Those elections are now expected to include a presidential contest as well.

He also accompanied Olivia Newton-John for the 1974 Eurovision song contest, as well as Petula Clark and Tom Jones.

The governing party seemed to be facing crucial losses in other contests, as well.

Smith lost the contest, as was not unusual before a white jury in 1963.

The Jets sometimes seem to make life unnecessarily complicated, trying to win popularity contests as well as football games.

"Hopefully, they go there and bring some hardware back, from the 3-point and the dunk contest as well".