Sentence examples for lightly contested from inspiring English sources

A year ago, Eliot Spitzer, the real-estate scion and crusading attorney general, won a lightly contested race for governor, against a Republican named John Faso, by promising to put an end to that dysfunction.

It ought to be instructive, because the Soviet experience ("an increasingly senseless conflict") closely mirrors our own — a lightly contested invasion later thwarted by a homegrown resistance and the "Afghan tradition of shifting allegiances".

Romney's victory came on the heels of twin primary triumphs over Santorum during the week in hard-fought Michigan and lightly contested Arizona, as well as a narrow win over Paul in Maine caucuses earlier in February.

But that list of 31 potentially vulnerable seats includes ten that were only lightly contested in 2018 because they were either held by Democratic incumbents or featured flawed Republican nominees in open seats.

That means looking for places where sovereignty is lightly held and rarely contested, like rural communities.

The engagement between the ships was fiercely contested, but the smaller and more lightly armed Boston seemed to be taking the more serious damage when at 6 20 Captain Courtenay was thrown to the deck.

Everything else was contested.

"They contested every shot.

Contested, too.

Angry creditors contested his will.

Borghese Inc. contested the trademark.