Sentence examples for failed to contest from inspiring English sources

A year ago the Aam Aadmi Party was bursting into life as a political force; yet it failed to contest a single seat in Maharashtra or Haryana.

You were talking about Gordon Brown and how you can trace back some of Labour's problems to 1994 [when Brown failed to contest the leadership with Tony Blair]?

"Mr Bucklew presented strong medical evidence – that the Missouri Department of Corrections failed to contest – showing the likelihood of unnecessary pain and suffering beyond what is constitutionally permissible.

On Sunday night's game against the Los Angeles Clippers, the Detroit Pistons guard attempted, and failed, to contest DeAndre Jordan's Dunk of the Year.

"Despite being given many opportunities to do so, the Polish Government has failed to contest that it knew prisoners were being held beyond the rule of law and tortured by the CIA inside their own country.

The East Africans have failed to contest a Nations Cup since reaching their first finals in 1980.

Eleven years after the attacks of 9/11, our judiciary continues to fail to contest most government claims of secrecy and executive power.

Garnett fills the box score (11 of 14 from the floor, 7 rebounds, 5 assists), but Boston fails to contest Toronto's outside shooters, who are all spontaneously combusting.

USADA's rules provide that where an athlete or other person is sanctioned because they fail to contest USADA's charges in arbitration, the sanction shall not be reopened or subject to appeal unless the athlete or other person can demonstrate that he did not receive actual or constructive notice of the opportunity to contest the sanction.

They failed to find or contest a 6-inch long, pointed brass threading needle that I use to replace the leather laces of my deck shoes.

It also includes stories on a cholera outbreak in Cuba, rising defaults on Brazilian loans and a failed effort to contest the result of Mexico's presidential election.