Sentence examples for to contest about from inspiring English sources

The Green party is hoping to field parliamentary candidates in about half the seats in England and Wales, while the sister Scottish party plans to contest about a third of the seats in Scotland.

The interval included some transfixingly odd moments on Fox News, involving Karl Rove and reports that the Romney campaign might want to contest just about everything; then they realized that there was nothing practical to contest.

You may want to submit a letter to the editor, or even write a poem and submit it to a contest about why you love your country, and what freedom means to you.

Sony's entertainment division, which bought ten-year broadcasting rights to the contest for about $1.6 billion, expects its advertising revenues to grow by 20% next year.

We might as well have challenged women to a contest about which of us has more Y chromosomes.

The party needs to contest the argument about change – to set out that there are two different approaches to the role of government, to the political response to an economic downturn and the broader politics of fairness and opportunity.

Completing his application to the contest took about 2 weeks.

A few times Melzer and Petzschner were about ready to contest a line call — once they actually did — only to change their minds after the Bryans shook their heads as if to say, don't bother wasting a challenge on that.

I am not certain, in 2015, that either of the men about to contest the premiership know that they too have a country to save and rebuild.

A meaningful alternative approach would have to contest the core assumptions about American security that are taken as fixed by of these two exhaustive yet intellectually vapid exercises.

Rodriguez had been adamant about wanting to contest his suspension, but said, "With my situation, I felt it was a moot point if I was going to miss three days anyway".