Sentence examples for effectively uncontested from inspiring English sources

A grandmaster draw refers to when players engage in a short, effectively uncontested game, often in the last round of a tournament, and then agree to a draw.

Called a grandmaster draw, it refers to agreements between players, usually in a tournament's final round, to play a short, effectively uncontested game — perhaps 10 moves.

Although the house is elected every two years, a high proportion of individual districts are effectively uncontested, with only a minority of citizens voting.

He asserted that he needed to counteract Ms. Ferraro's name recognition and the fact that Mr. Green spent $2 million during an effectively uncontested bid for re-election as Public Advocate last year.

On June 6 , 2011 Bonds and Watson filed a legal agreement not to take the divorce to trial and instead settle it in an "uncontested manner", effectively agreeing to take the proceedings out of the public eye and end the marriage privately at an unspecified later date without further court involvement.

Then, some bright spark came up with the idea of the 23rd man – an additional front-row replacement whose presence effectively closed the loophole of uncontested set-pieces, which the Londoners had frequently used in the way the idle rich use offshore bank accounts.

Saturday's race was effectively over as soon as Richard Hughes grabbed an uncontested lead in the first half-dozen strides.

Mr Power told BBC Jersey: "What we have now is effectively the prosecution case which has been put out as if it was uncontested.

If the drugs don't work effectively, the execution will be torturous, as the supreme court of America has itself acknowledged: "It is uncontested that, failing a proper dose of sodium thiopental that would render the prisoner unconscious, there is a substantial … risk of suffocation … and pain from the injection".

Travis Kavulla* Uncontested Republican Rep.

No blessing goes uncontested.