Sentence examples for members contested from inspiring English sources

Several WLL members contested the London County Council elections in 1910; Bondfield stood in Woolwich, unsuccessfully (she contested the same seat in 1913, with a similar result).

A couple of years later, in April of 2011, when the body of former scientist Uma Rao was found, authorities ruled the death as suicide, but family members contested the verdict, saying there had been no signs that Rao was suicidal.   .

It is particularly critical for couples with children to designate guardians, since judges have been known to award guardianship to an independent administrator when family members have contested the estate".

As a National Front member, Griffin contested the seat of Croydon North West twice, in the 1981 by-election and 1983 general election, securing 1.2% and 0.9% of the vote.

Never in the past was there a situation that such a decision was changed and implementation regulations have been changed because one of the member states has contested and… it would be extremely difficult to do it".

This area near the airport is being heavily contested by members of the standing Gaddafi army, it is not mercenaries.

Every week, she said, Zipcar convenes what it calls an "appeals board," which discusses, one at a time, damage claims that are contested by members.

Despite criticism by some reform-minded legislators that provoked angry outbursts from Mr. Arafat, he won the support of council members who had previously contested his appointments and accused his ministers of corruption and incompetence.

Although a decorated Vietnam soldier (he would be the first to hold the top job at the Pentagon) and a Republican senator for 12 years, his nomination is likely to be more contested by members of his own party than by Democrats (although he has relatively few friends in that camp as well).

The more learned members of the congregation contested his scholarship.

This experiment found that at slightly over half (22/42) of all carcasses, ownership was contested by members of each sex.