Sentence examples for most tightly contested from inspiring English sources

These were not the most tightly contested affairs.

It went unnoticed by no one that Virginia, among the most tightly contested states, may be among the most affected.

Birmingham had one of the most tightly contested votes in the UK, with 50.4% opting to leave.

Spain is readying for one of its most tightly contested national elections in decades, with the result too close to call and at least five parties from across the political spectrum with a chance of being in government.

The allegations, which come just two days before Americans go to the polls in one of the most tightly contested elections in a generation, threaten to plunge Tuesday's count into a legal minefield and overshadow even the elections of 2000.

Moorhead told Guardian Australia last week that the opposition picking up six of the most tightly contested seats – the original swag thought necessary for Labor to at least have a shot at government - remained a live possibility.

"Akasa, atsara, araka, ajira," a Hausa saying from northern Nigeria, is loosely translated as "cast your vote, protect it, escort it, wait for it (the results)", reflecting fears the ruling party may try to rig the results in what is the most tightly-contested election since the end of military rule in 1999.

He hit on driving dunks, and, most impressively, tightly contested turnaround fadeaway jump shots, which didn't seem as much to go in the basket as to be pulled through by a gravitational force.

Recovery of control in some tightly contested councils.

Because it's a tightly contested parliament, that could happen".

But the race was tightly contested from the start.