Sentence examples for fraught contest from inspiring English sources

Mayoral candidates from the major parties say the fraught contest, to be held on Thursday, is far from a foregone conclusion.

The former Daily Mail political editor was Osborne's director of communications throughout the fraught contest, helping to craft documents such as the mocked-up budget red book that enraged Brexiters by suggesting leaving the EU would force the Treasury to cut spending and ramp up taxes.

Born out of a fraught ideological contest, it can never escape the heat of the political battlefield.

Given the extent to which we judge and are judged on the basis of how much we earn, this particular show-me-yours contest is fraught with danger – and there are powerful vested interests in keeping salaries private.

The unprecedented move increased tensions over the Buddhist leadership contest, already fraught as ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 88, has traditionally been involved in Buddhist ceremonies but his ill health has created a power vacuum.

The combatants, if they can be called that, are parents and their daughters, and the fraught territory they are contesting is adolescent sexuality.

But Mr. Been said the contest ultimately was fraught with problems that made him think that "maybe things weren't on the up and up".

ON Nov. 4, 2001, the Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks met in the seventh and deciding game of the World Series, a contest that seemed fraught with meaning well beyond the big game.

A Summers nomination, she wrote, "would come at a cost of higher market volatility and interest rates, and a less buoyant economic recovery".Mr Appelbaum is right to point out that the current nomination contest is particularly fraught given the Fed's new reliance on forward guidance.

However, its launch and a related "script contest" were immediately fraught with confusion and controversy as a number of writers warned of Amazon's then-free 18-month option on scripts from the moment they were uploaded, as well as other issues with copyright and authorship.

The contest was nasty, fraught with online name-calling and allegations that the leadership of the strongly pro-Palestinian Corbyn has fostered anti-Semitic abuse in the party. .