Sentence examples for hold contested from inspiring English sources

This year, 16 states will hold contested elections for seats on their highest courts, and candidates will raise and spend millions of dollars for their campaigns.

In Aleppo, where communications seemed to be limited, fighting continued Tuesday, with the rebels saying they were trying to hold contested areas amid an extended government assault.

"Part of the reason why we saw better-equipped Iraqi security forces with larger numbers not be able to hold contested territory against I.S.I.L. probably reflects that lack of a sense of commitment on the part of Sunni communities to work with Baghdad," Obama said.

Having scored large victories in New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina, Trump now looks set to win at least eight of the eleven states that will hold contested Republican votes on Super Tuesday: Alaska, Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia.

This year, 32 states will be holding contested elections or retention votes for judges on their highest courts.

Already this year, two billion-dollar companies have held contested elections: TPG-Axon Capital Management's effort to remove the entire board at the oil and gas explorer SandRidge Energy, and the Ader Group's effort to elect three directors at International Game Technology, a manufacturer of gambling machines.

Whoever could hold the contested ground in the area of Katia and Romani would be in a position to protect the Canal, or within striking distance.

Places such as Oildale could prove to be important points on the political map June 7 when California, for the first time since the 1960s, will hold a contested Republican presidential primary.

Second, the territory held or contested by militants is certainly unattractive, but is often of strategic value.

The next day, the House of Representatives was to hold a hotly contested vote to approve T.P.A. (better known as "fast track" negotiating authority), the rare Obama Administration priority supported by more congressional Republicans than Democrats.

— Any prospect that the saga over Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich's contested hold on power might end swiftly evaporated on Wednesday when the State Supreme Court refused to hear a request to remove him, and Mr. Blagojevich's lawyer made it clear at an impeachment inquiry here that the governor had no intention of going quietly.