Sentence examples for up contested from inspiring English sources
After two and a half years without official dialogue, these adversaries were not engaged in the type of negotiation that has statesmen poring over a map, pointing at watersheds and mountain ranges, divvying up contested territory.
Of course, close races can often end up contested: In 2008, Al Franken, the Democratic Senate candidate from Minnesota, defeated the Republican incumbent, Norm Coleman, by 312 votes, but the results were entangled in legal fights until the Minnesota Supreme Court finally declared Mr. Franken the winner seven months after the fact.
Since the end of colonial rule, the Élysée has been accused of pulling strings, sweetened with briefcases of petrodollars, propping up contested leaders to suit Paris's business interests in a shady system known as "Françafrique".
She threw up a contested three-pointer in the final seconds that came up short.
Or, for that matter, for those who are living, breathing politicians gearing up for contested re-election campaigns.
Before game one, I wrote that I would be screaming "No!" when Anthony jacked up a contested three, and scream again when it went in.
For this reason, he avoided the criminal law until reform dried up his contested divorce work, and he had no alternative but to go "down the Bailey".
Should Watson's fitness fail him, the current series could end up being contested without anything on either side even remotely resembling a Test match all-rounder.
Clear, comprehensive, and brimming with provocative insights, this new book by Richard Wolff and Stephen Resnick's book is a much-needed presentation of the three theories neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxist that make up the contested terrain of contemporary economics.
(Why dump it when the goalie's just going to retrieve it and sling it back the other way?) If other goalies copied him, the executives feared, too much time would end up being contested in the neutral zone, where scoring remains a distant thought.
On the final possession, Marbury was flummoxed by a quick trap at the top of the key; with more than four seconds left, he had time to find an open man but instead forced up a contested 3-pointer that missed badly.
