Sentence examples for intensely contested from inspiring English sources

Romney, Santorum and Gingrich were all campaigning in Ohio, the most intensely contested of the states holding nominating contests on Tuesday as the first caucus returns were reported from Washington state.

By contrast, just 97,000 Democrats voted early in the 2004 presidential primary, which was not as intensely contested.

Although intensely contested, their games this spring have lacked the bitterness and injuries that have marked previous meetings.

The Biden operation feels more like an early primary enterprise than a campaign in the final week of an intensely contested presidential race.

Ms. Redford, who as the premier of Alberta is the province's top government official, was on her fourth trip to Washington in 18 months to lobby on behalf of the intensely contested project.

There were two highlights in Vlore: a park along the main drag, Bulevardi Vlore-Skele, where old men smoked like chimneys around intensely contested games of chess and dominoes and warmly welcomed a visitor with a camera.

Forces from the two countries have battled intensely over the past year amid confusion over disputed areas and contested oil fields.

Similarly, Martin Bernal's loudly and heatedly contested multi-volume Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization is by far the most widely read, and intensely debated, work in this vein to which many have turned.

Contested, too.

Everything else was contested.

"They contested every shot.