Sentence examples for desperately contested from inspiring English sources
(One journalist at the time called it "the fastest, closest and most desperately contested major league race on record").
During a desperately contested presidential election, in the media and cultural capital of the world, in a boom town where Broadway theaters were flourishing and entrepreneurs were pioneering a fledgling new video industry, New Yorkers took to the subways to cheer on pennant winners from rival boroughs as they waged World Series war.
Michigan lost the game, which was described as "one of the most desperately contested games ever played in Chicago," by a score of 7 6.
"The common man is fed up," said Pawan Kumar, extracting from his shirt a wad of paper documenting a fine that he had contested, desperately and fruitlessly.
The third-place play-off, contested by two desperately disappointed teams in England and Italy, turned out to be uplifting.
The one operation future defence strategists desperately wanted to rule out – a contested amphibious landing far from home – had been fought and won.
Next Thursday, the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct will begin issuing its findings as it prepares for embarrassing, headline-grabbing public hearings that Democrats, in this hotly contested, contentious midterm election season, are desperately hoping to avoid.
The greatest obstacles to delivering desperately needed assistance to those who live in zones controlled, or at least contested, by al-Shabaab remain the potential for corruption and for direct attacks from the militants.
Even though ridesharing's long-term impact on traffic is widely contested, nearly everyone agrees that a solution to urban congestion is desperately needed.
The Spanish team desperately struggling to get off the ground thanks to the efforts of former racer Adrián Campos who contested 16 grands prix himself during the 1987 and 88 seasons.
