And as Democrats collapsed across rural America, this formerly narrowly contested seat turned sharply toward Republicans.
This seat, formerly held by Secretary of State John Kerry, will be contested twice: once in a special election this summer, and then again for a full six-year term in November 2014.
Another theory contested by residents of this formerly Austrian region, who see the Iceman as their forefather, claims he was cast out from his community because a low sperm count rendered him childless.
First established in 1973, it changed formats in 2000; since then, it has been contested between the winners of the Champions League (formerly the European Cup) and the Europa League (formerly the UEFA Cup), following the Cup Winners' Cup amalgamation into the latter.
It was the first to be contested following the renaming of the competition, formerly titled the FA Charity Shield.
The civil suit and potential criminal charges are being contested by Al-Saud, who has hired Alan Jackson, formerly part of the LA District Attorney's office, to fight the case.
After hearing for months that they were on the verge of losing control of the House, Democrats said the decisive victory by Mark Critz, a Democrat, in the blue-collar district formerly represented by the late John P. Murtha, showed they remain competitive in the kinds of hotly contested regions Republicans need to win to have a real chance of capturing the House.
With Julia Child and Larousse leading the shortcrust charge, ranged against the might of Raymond Blanc and Britain's finest pastry chef, Claire Clark, formerly of the French Laundry, in the puff camp, this was going to be a keenly contested battle.
While these measures have, to a certain extent, rescued the formerly British-focused monument from obscurity, the paper unravels issues rendering the re-adaptation a highly contested affair, derived primarily from recalcitrant colonial memories and the multi-ethnic complexion of the Malaysian nation.
