Sentence examples for disputed race from inspiring English sources

After a hotly disputed race for the top spot at the World Trade Organization, a compromise was struck in 1999 that split the term, giving the first stint to Mr. Supachai's rival, Mike Moore of New Zealand.

Mr. Jagan was elected president in a disputed race 1992.

A judge in Chelan County, east of Seattle, declined a request by the state Republican Party to expedite discovery in a lawsuit the party has filed seeking a new vote in the disputed race for governor.

The winner, James Griffin, defeated Lisa Scails, president of the state organization of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the winner of the disputed race on Oct. 27, 2001.

"It could be like 34 Minnesota Senate races," one Western official said, referring to the disputed race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman, which took nearly eight months to resolve in Mr. Franken's favor.

"The indented or pregnant or dimpled chad that had not been broken on any side, it was too difficult to discern voter intent," said Burton S. Odelson, a lawyer in Evergreen Park, Ill., who represented one of the candidates in the disputed race, a Republican legislative primary in 1990.

For Mr. Blum, the lawsuit crowns a two-decade-long devotion to disputing race-based laws, forged during an unsuccessful Congressional campaign in a Houston district that he later proved was unconstitutionally engineered along racial lines.

A DEMOCRATIC president running in a bitterly disputed presidential race faces a fateful national security decision: whether to approve an airstrike to thwart an adversary bent on becoming a nuclear-weapons state.

The governor's remarks were his most explicitly partisan comments since his state became the focus of the disputed presidential race in the hours after the polls closed on Nov. 7.

Although wrongdoing was never proved, Joanne Schivley, a City Council member, considered the election invalid and for four years bitterly opposed Mr. Davis, refused to address him as "mayor," and eventually challenged his re-election (no winner has been declared in a disputed, close race).

Later, he won the 200 in a dramatic final burst and picked up his second gold in the disputed relay race.