Sentence examples for half of the contested from inspiring English sources

But even though government-backed militants intimidated many voters, the Movement for Democratic Change stunned the political establishment by winning nearly half of the contested seats in Parliament.

Just over half of the contested names were removed from the rolls.

Taylor Fravel, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, concluded that in settling 17 of its 23 territorial disputes China usually agreed to take less than half of the contested land.

Since 1949, it has resolved 17 of 23 border disputes, offering concessions in 15 of those instances and, over all, receiving less than half of the contested territory, said M. Taylor Fravel, an associate professor of political science at M.I.T.

Though she wrote in "A Patriot's Handbook" that "the day when I feel most proud to be an American is not the Fourth of July, but Election Day," Ms. Kennedy had not voted in about half of the contested elections held since she registered to vote at her current address in Manhattan in 1988.

The party won more than half of the 121 contested seats in the 247-seat upper house.

But a review by The Daily News indicated that Ms. Kennedy, a Democrat, has not voted in about half of the 38 contested elections since 1988, most of them primaries.

But in a stunning measure of the Koizumi effect, his party secured a landslide victory, giving it more than half of the 121 contested seats in the 247-seat upper house, even without its coalition partners, some of whom also seemed to benefit from the Koizumi glow.

In the 1998 local elections the Centre Democrats lost all but one of its seats, having contested the election in just around half of the municipalities it contested in 1994.

Mitch Robinson was outstanding with 26 possessions – more than half of them contested – while Allen Christensen (31 disposals) provided spark and Lewis Taylor (23 touches, three goals) had arguably the best game of his AFL career.

In many councils, only a third or half of seats are contested in each election.