Sentence examples for with a contested from inspiring English sources

It has to do with a contested election involving the office of state comptroller of Maryland, that took place Nov. 1859.

Mr. Remar, the A.C.L.U.'s vice president, said that to some extent, the national organization was entering uncharted waters because this would be its first experience with a contested receivership.

There's too much at stake to have anything other than our best candidates taking part in the debate; everyone is better off with a contested primary.

"Only with a contested election will the winner have... a proper, credible mandate.

Only with a contested election will the winner have... a proper, credible mandate" David Bernstein, FA chairman, England.

E will take away Stoudemire's rim-to-rim opportunity, leaving Nash with a contested 3-point shot from a low-percentage spot on the court.

Naturally, with only a contested 2012 Republican presidential primary, the number of "registered Republicans" in the state increased.

Whether the USDA has the statutory authority to deny a petition for HR crop deregulation (i.e., approval) on the grounds of worsening problems with resistant weeds is a contested issue in ongoing litigation.

But one morning this week his platform was all about fun, which he advocated with all the vigor of a contested campaign issue.

It sits on the main north-south highway between Damascus, the capital, and Aleppo, a city near the border with Turkey that has been a contested battleground since last July.

But in October 1562 the queen nearly died of smallpox, and, faced with the real possibility of a contested succession and a civil war, even rival factions were likely to have countenanced the marriage.