Sentence examples for won the contested from inspiring English sources

The home side found space easily and moved the ball quickly, while they won the contested possession count 143-119.

They won the contested possession count by 19, a yawning gap that you'd think points to future struggles for Adam Simpson's side.

Kicking woes beset Richmond, who won the contested possession count, inside 50s and the free-kick tally but not the match.

Like many African-Americans, the Rev. Walter Humphrey, pastor of two mostly black churches in Akron, Ohio, and Oakland, Calif., has serious doubts about how fairly President Bush won the contested state of Florida in the last election.

Western Union was a known ally of the Republican Party, but the Democrats of the day had no choice but to use its wires, which put them at a disadvantage; for example, Republicans won the contested election of 1876 thanks in part to an intercepted telegraph.

The Conservatives won the contested seat by 20 votes in 2008.

President Bush turned Friday for assistance on Iraq to the man who helped him win the contested election in 2000, naming former Secretary of State James A. Baker III as his personal envoy to restructure more than $100 billion in Iraq's foreign debt.

Anyone with a strong cup of coffee and a few hours to go through the two-inch stack of paper learned, for example, that Mr. Bush worked the summer he turned 16 as a $200-a-month messenger at Baker Botts, the Houston family law firm of James A. Baker III, who later became secretary of state and helped Mr. Bush win the contested 2000 election.

Marostica raised and spent roughly $350,000, of which $220,000 — almost least two-thirds of the money his campaign spent — was donated by Marostica himself, to win the contested primary and general elections.

Leigh Matthews has complimented Selwood as "already the best wet-weather player in the game", a view shared by Nathan Buckley, who notes that Selwood "plays with a physicality and intensity that is the benchmark of the competition, consistently (finding) third and fourth efforts to win the contested ball".

You have to win the contested possession, of course, but there also seems to exist in Hawthorn's players an innate awareness and anticipation of each other's' attacking movements, like a footballing version of predictive text.