Sentence examples for in trying to contest from inspiring English sources

Those cassette tapes could stand in for all the frustrations that the West has experienced in trying to contest Mr. bin Laden's influence.

Others have been in the fray, trying to contest …" BS: "I think it's great that they are wanting to contribute to the public good even after retirement or leaving their job.

But while Mr. Bradley once talked of trying to contest Mr. Gore in almost every state, his campaign is trying to focus its efforts on certain states to ensure that he gains enough victories to justify staying in the race.

The priority monist could in principle try to contest 21, but the notion of an intrinsic property looks to have important theoretical work to do.[57] For instance, intrinsicness seems connected to other core notions like duplication (duplicates agree in all of their intrinsic properties) and change (change is change in intrinsic properties).

The priority monist could in principle also try to contest 23, but 23 stems from a plausible connection between being a fundamental object and bearing fundamental properties (Sider 2008: §1).

David Mathieson, a Burma expert at Human Rights Watch, told Agence France-Presse: "The NLD has got to decide whether to adapt to the deeply unfair situation and try to contest in some way or take the moral high ground and continue to be excluded".

But the feds made it clear they were playing tough: After one of the payment processors, Douglas Rennick of Canada, tried to contest the seizures in federal court in San Diego, he was indicted for bank fraud conspiracy.

She went to lawyers to try to contest it.

However, certain states also try to contest or circumvent their international legal commitment.

We'll contest the facts there, and we'll try to contest them here".

Denis Staunton of the Irish Times wrote in 2002 that trying to win the contest "seemed to jar with our new, nonchalant, national self-image".