Sentence examples for nasty contest from inspiring English sources
So, let's just start by acknowledging that this a particularly nasty contest, but that legislative maneuvers and extreme bylaws are not unusual in these situations.
The race between the two Democrats who hope to unseat Mr. Rubio, for instance, has been a nasty contest underscoring each candidate's weaknesses.
And he is a former assistant district attorney from the Bronx who in 1988 lost a nasty contest for the top job, in which a rival insinuated a link between Mr. Foglia, Father Gigante and organized crime without any proof.
After the 2016 campaign, a number of skirmishes broke out between the Sanders and Clinton wings of the Party, most notably the drawn-out, nasty contest for the chair of the Democratic National Committee.
It has made for a sometimes nasty contest in one of the year's most closely watched races, where two political veterans seek to fill the vacancy opened by the retirement of a two-term Republican incumbent, Senator Connie Mack.
In what became quite a nasty contest, with plenty of mudslinging all round, Mr Santorum encouraged the ruse.Despite it, Mr Romney snagged a modest victory in Michigan, beating Mr Santorum by 41% to 38%, as well as romping home in Arizona, by 47% to 27%.
The nastiest contest in memory, after all, has put at the front and center of American life the question of how to ease this transfer of power.
Bun B spent three days on the front lines of the fight to stop the Republican frontrunner there, talking to Trump's fans and detractors to find out what was really going in the nastiest contest of the 2016 race so far.
About 15 hours after he lost his cool and put himself in line for a possible suspension, Anthony acknowledged on Tuesday that he allowed trash talking from Kevin Garnett to get to him in a nasty-edged contest that the Knicks lost to their Atlantic Division rivals.
The dispute is now considered one of the nastiest legal contests in memory, a spectacle almost as ugly as the pollution that prompted it.
As nasty as political contests can be in the United States, this campaign seems to be setting new highs (or lows) for sleazy ads.
