Sentence examples for more closely contested from inspiring English sources
The women's event was more closely contested.
A more closely contested demographic, however, are married women with children, who are less Democratic than most other women.
The Tampa Bay Rays took a 2-0 advantage over the White Sox in their best-of-five American League division series Friday night by winning, 6-2, in a game more closely contested than the final score suggested.
Gov. George W. Bush hurtled today into the stretch run of the presidential race, making a high-profile visit to California instead of the more closely contested states in the Midwest and portraying his opponent as a man who practices the "politics of division".
A10 World Briefing A6 NATIONAL A18-25 Bush Is Pushing Hard To Take California Gov. George W. Bush campaigned in California instead of more closely contested Midwestern states, portraying Vice President Al Gore as someone who practices the "politics of division" and suggesting the Republicans would carry the state, a cornerstone of the last two Democratic Presidential victories.
In the more closely contested states of Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia there are over 45,000 precincts.
No rivalry in world cricket is more consistently closely contested.
Even after decades of population decline, it still casts 23 electoral votes, more than any other closely contested state.
The group has also run advertisements in several cities criticizing Mr. Bush's record on gun control, and plans to buy more air time in closely contested states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Missouri.
But one conclusion seemed clear: Whoever wins will be forced to make deep and unpopular cuts, a task made all the more difficult if the closely contested election produces, as many commentators have forecast, a hung Parliament or a fragile coalition arrangement that might delay important economic decisions.
Mr. Obama's campaign manager has suggested his candidate may net more delegates here than in closely contested Ohio.
