Sentence examples for delay the contest from inspiring English sources

However, a Labour spokesman insisted last night: "We do not have plans to suspend or delay the contest".

Blackpool supporters threw numerous tennis balls and tangerines on to the pitch – a ploy used by Seville fans a few years ago – which delayed the contest by several minutes.

Petitioners are, in effect, asking this Court to delay the commencement of election contest actions, if any, by improperly using the protest procedures to contest the election before certification.

He said one justice, Steven W. Fisher, the administrative judge for the courts in Queens, would be assigned to handle disputes in any of the races that threatened to delay the counting in citywide contests.

Absent further weather delays, the contest might still be completed on Sunday evening.

New rules adopted by the party in 2010 sought to ensure more states have meaningful contests and to delay the start of primary campaigning (a goal undone by Florida keeping its primary in January).

"We must contest every single inch of ground and delay the baby-murdering, tax-raising socialists at every opportunity," wrote Peter Morrison, treasurer of the Hardin County Republican Party.

Delays will only delay the appeal process.

After morning rain delayed the day-night contest at the Premadasa Stadium by an hour, Steven Finn was left out because of a groin problem so the inexperienced Chris Woakes and Harry Gurney, with only 26 caps between them, opened the bowling in the absence on this tour of James Anderson and Stuart Broad.

Some Labour MPs believe the party may decide next week to delay or suspend the contest to give it time to weed out people who do not support the party.

But she was only delaying the inevitable and she lost the contest when she twice overshot the baseline.