The political theorists mentioned above argue that the best way for the state to begin treating all families equally is for governments to avoid the highly contested terrain of licensing marriage and granting a package of rights only to citizens who achieve this status.
The Midcounties had taken legal advice after the board reduced a shortlist of six candidates for three member-nominated directors to three – avoiding the contested elections that long-standing co-op activists had expected.
But according to the Washington Post, Massey's mine "met the legal criteria" to avoid the designation "in part because contested violations had not been resolved.
If the people in the rest of the nation vote as the Super Tuesday results suggest they would, Mr. Trump would easily amass a majority of delegates and avoid the contested convention that his opponents hope to force and win.
Victims are likely to want as many charges as possible to be brought; prosecutors must limit an indictment to make trials manageable and may sometimes accept guilty pleas to lesser charges to avoid the expense and risk of a contested hearing.
Since he came on the scene, it's hard to avoid the perception that the race has been contested primarily in the courts.
Likewise, capuchins may interpret all hiccups, regardless of context, as equally likely to indicate the presence of a predator, but decide to ignore hiccups during competitive feeding in order to avoid the risk of losing access to a contested resource.
He was always careful to avoid the real questions that hung over his increasingly contested career.
Jim Messina, the campaign manager, is determined to contest as many states as possible, to avoid the trap he believes past Democratic campaigns fell into of pinning all their hopes on just one or two fiercely contested and fickle swing states.
A few days later, Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president, who had created a committee to explore the possibility of challenging Ms. Gillibrand, also decided to abandon the effort, citing the party's desire to avoid a contested primary.
