Sentence examples for is contested to from inspiring English sources

But the idea that cutting the 50p rate costs £3bn is contested (to put it politely), and the other saving is a hypothetical one.

Under rules revised in 2001, games are contested to 11 points rather than 21, with players alternating service every two points.

The idea was to make a collage that utilises patterns that are contested to have been used in the underground railroad, but then also to create my own patterns that are inspired by the lives and deaths of these people.

The party needed just four gains to take Birmingham, but claimed half of the 40 seats being contested to finish with a 34-seat majority.

We have a horse race that will be contested to the finish line.

Many of the descriptions of events are contested, to be sure, but that is always the case.

While the Dutch rearguard was overwhelmed by British numbers, a more equal combat was being contested to the north.

The migration of juvenile salmonids downriver on the Columbia and Snake Rivers has been contested to be compromised due to the multiple hydropower facilities located on these rivers.

In fact, the New York City Board of Elections does not keep records of the delegates' names, unless a race is contested, according to Naomi R. Bernstein, the board's director of communications.

"Buy to leave" certainly occurs, but the extent of it is contested and hard to quantify.

So it is deeply troubling that the human right to water continues to be contested at the UN.