Sentence examples for the three contested from inspiring English sources

That meant that Tilden would get one of Oregon's three electoral votes, giving him the final vote he needed for election even without the three contested Southern states.

But opposition leaders, claiming that the ruling was aimed at limiting their majority in the assembly, defied the court and swore in the three contested deputies all the same.

The State Department warning said that embassy personnel had seen "an increase in the number of irregularities appearing in orphan petitions and visa applications," and "significant increases in the number of abandoned children" in two provinces, including Thai Nguyen, where the three contested babies were adopted.

The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has registered more than 120,000 residents displaced from the three contested districts — Swat, Buner and Dir — and surrounding areas, and warns that several hundred thousand more are likely to leave as well.

As the end of the rainy season improves access on South Sudan's dirt roads, UNICEF is pre-positioning life-saving supplies at key locations, strengthening its emergency response in Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile – the three contested states where needs are most acute.

But they are bracing for a rush of Schubert-designed television ads in the four contested states.

It has jurisdiction over the petitions in any congressional district that crosses county lines, like the eight contested upstate districts.

The opposition took forty-three of the forty-five conteseatsseven, even winning neighborhoods in the capital that are home to civil servants.

Then, when you get a Grand Slam final like the one contested between Francesca Schiavone and Sam Stosur in Paris last month, they complain that variety only means mediocrity.

Analysis: Labour held on to the four contested seats, but most people chose not to vote at all, writes Guardian columnist David McKie.

7.33am: I like this from xyzzy, in the comments below: Labour lost eight out of the ten contested seats they held in Bristol.