Sentence examples for fairly contested from inspiring English sources

Fairly contested elections have resulted in several orderly changes of government since independence.

Violence abroad is most often incited by incumbent governments who believe that they will lose a fairly contested election, or by opposition parties that know they are about to lose and thus attempt to preemptively delegitimize the outcome.

Instead of pricks smashing windows because the result of a fairly contested sports event displeased them, they were now righteously indignant freedom fighters refusing to bow to the po-po.

Thein Sein oversaw the implementation of what proved to be Myanmar's first-ever fairly contested parliamentary elections, which were held in early November 2015.

Hockey fans angry at the result of a fairly-contested sporting event rioted in the streets of Canada last night.

Given that so much is at stake, play-off finals are contested surprisingly fairly.

Whatever the reason, finals in most competitions tend to be contested more fairly than many bettors and bookmakers would have anticipated.

"As you had thrown down the gauntlet which I took up, I must call upon you as a true man and no craven to render me according to the terms of the defiance the honors of a field worthily contested and fairly won".

"The players conducted themselves brilliantly and contested everything fairly and it was a very enjoyable game.

Independents loyal to the king won most of the 110 seats in an expanded legislature; the Islamist opposition won about half the 30 seats that it contested.See article: Jordan's fairly fair electionJohn Wolf, America's special Middle East envoy, struggled to salvage the road map; Colin Powell, America's secretary of state, was due to join him.

Although the notion has been contested, it does seem fairly clear that these implements bear witness to another cognitive advance: the existence in the toolmaker's mind of a standard "mental template" to which the tools were made.