Correction: October 8, 2000, Sunday An article on Friday about vacant seats on the United Nations Security Council misidentified the country that is backed by Latin America and the Caribbean for one of two uncontested positions.
"It's an uncontested, competitive position," says Troy Jensen, a network sector analyst with Piper Jaffray.
In political parlance, the phrase is commonly used to describe a candidate's ability to nudge and elbow their way through an otherwise competitive intra-party primary uncontested, thereby positioning themselves for a relatively effortless or imminent win in a successive dual-party match up.
With the top Democratic leadership positions uncontested, the caucus chairman position became somewhat of a proxy election for calls of new blood in leadership.
Netanyahu's major concern is now to maintain his position uncontested leader Israel's right, or in the right's parlance, of Israel's national camp.
Buoyed by the Cold War victory and an economic boom, Bill Clinton eventually positioned himself as a sort of "President of the World," using the nation's uncontested superpower status to seek common ground and advance common goals.
Despite the occasional professional and personal misjudgment, his position was uncontested, his genius acknowledged.
Similarly, the recovery of the financial markets in the following years brought a period of prosperity to the city in general, securing Zürich's position as the uncontested economic capital of Switzerland.
The King of Spain is understandably admired for his decision to reintroduce and defend democracy in the years following the death of Franco (notwithstanding his desire to protect his own personal position as the uncontested head of state - a position which is profoundly undemocratic).
You can hold your position easily in uncontested areas, so it might be worth the extra effort to take a stand on the higher-competition ones.
