1. The seat was being hotly contested among the politicians.

2. The divorce was not contested.

3. Three candidates contested the leadership.

4. The lawyer contested every point.

5. They contested his right to speak.

6. Gender discrimination is a hotly contested issue.

7. The medal is being keenly contested by eight gymnasts.

8. Defence lawyers successfully contested the case.

9. The election was bitterly contested.

10. They contested against unreasonable regulations.

11. These days divorce is rarely contested.

12. The referee's decision was contested by the loser.

13. They contested for the position of minister of foreign affairs.

14. They contested against the world's best runners in the games.

15. The two runners contested the race closely it was nip and tuck all the way.

16. Women are running in nearly all the contested seats in Los Angeles.

17. His views on evolution are strongly contested by other scientists.

18. And of course there were no contested elections.

19. The leadership election will be contested by four candidates.

20. The pharmacy company contested the agency's findings.

21. No one there had expected a contested election.

22. Thomas felt hard done by, contested the will and lost.http://

23. It will be contested by 105 riders from 15 teams.

24. A total of 406 candidates contested the election and a 72 percent turnout was registered.

25. The vacant seat of the financial minister is hotly contested among politicians.

26. The other awards, featured on page 15, may be more prestigious but they certainly won't be more hotly contested.

27. By early 1989 over 230 parties had registered and a total of 93 parties contested the May 1990 elections.

28. A total of 667 candidates fielded by 17 political parties contested the 225 directly elected seats in the 325-member Assembly.

29. The AFL-CIO elected John Sweeney as president last October in the first contested election in its history.

30. Any reference to payment of rent by banker's order or credit transfer should be vigorously contested.

1. The seat was being hotly contested among the politicians.

2. The vacant seat of the financial minister is hotly contested among politicians.

31. H are the highest profile and most hotly contested items on the Nov. 4 ballot.

32. Denney created an atmosphere of strict discipline that was resented and bitterly contested by patients for years.

33. The power now contested was exercised by the first Congress elected under the present constitution.

34. Representation could not, however, be provided for contested cases or committal proceedings.

35. The second round was contested in the 58 constituencies where no candidate had gained an absolute majority in the first round.

36. In its case, although just viable, opinions over its right to life are fiercely contested.

37. When legislative elections were held in 1990 under domestic and international pressure, the opposition party won 392 of 485 contested seats.

38. The region has been fiercely contested by guerrillas and the paramilitary forces for the past few years.

39. In simultaneous elections to Bangkok city council, Chamlong's Palang Dharma party captured 50 out of 57 contested seats.

40. Target shareholders can sometimes be circumspect about accepting ordinary shares in the offeror, particularly if the takeover has been fiercely contested.

41. The trial - if there is a contested case it will be heard before a jury.

42. Waltham Forest strongly contested the belief that modest revenue increases would be sufficient for reprovision of Claybury.

43. These were the first contested presidential election since independence in 1960.

44. Senate Of the 35 Senate seats contested, 18 were won by the Democrats and 17 by the Republicans.

45. Some 230 starters contested the race which followed an undulating course over chalk, sand and mud from Whitley.

46. The third stage presents the most difficulty for contested bids, as they create very real technical and structural barriers.

47. The enormous cost of contested libel actions means that most plaintiffs will need financial support from unions or employers.

48. With 223 House Republicans elected so far, the winner in a contested election would need 112 votes to win.

49. Local government elections On Feb. 23 in local government by-elections 692 out of the 1,053 contested seats were won by independent candidates.

50. From its beginnings, writing about California has been a deeply metaphorical enterprise, a continuing and contested act of the imagination.

51. The lack of this information presents a barrier both to contested and agreed takeover bids.

52. This will be particularly important in relation to contested takeovers where the offeror can expect little co-operation from the board of the target.

53. In 1992, when Democrats had a contested presidential primary[http:///contested.html], the turnout was 5 percent.

54. The most important engagement of that first campaign was the fiercely contested battle at Freiburg against Bavarian forces.

55. The actual phenomenon these qualitative attributes refer to is, as we have witnessed, contested.

56. Hannington unsuccessfully contested parliamentary seats in 1929, 1931, 1934, and 1950.

57. This approximate definition, not unlike others in hotly contested areas of inquiry, is also a guide to further research.

58. Hayes's election depended on contested electoral votes in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida.

59. The target company will also assemble a similar team in a contested bid.

60. On the other hand, Best Supporting Actress was hotly contested.

61. She won because of her indefatigable energy and willpower, mobilizing women in state after state where the Amendment was contested.

62. When her family contested the will, Agia ominously testified on behalf of Mons from her grave.

63. Half a dozen other parties also contested the elections without securing representation.

64. Even at this juncture, however, the level of social or political commitment in Manet's work has been contested.

65. Another specific influence on both share prices and option premiums is the expectation and likelihood of a contested takeover.

66. Lincoln's role in determining the future of the Barnes is bound to be contested bitterly.

67. The Senior Cup final was contested between arch rivals Longfellows, winners in 1992, and the Oakley.

68. Both teams have won twice in three outings and a keen, tightly contested struggle is in prospect.

69. His club team Norton, near Stoke in the Midlands, won the world indoor championship contested by squads from 26 countries.

70. The election was contested by over 2,700 candidates representing 79 political parties.

71. The results were, however, contested by 14 of the parties which had participated in the elections.

72. Details of election results A total of 1,047 candidates - 223 independents and 824 party representatives - contested the 1992 elections.

73. At $ 40 million a year, the printer advertising account is considered a lucrative prize and is being hotly contested.

74. That unit is expected to fetch about $ 9 billion in a hotly contested auction within a few weeks.

75. The election was contested by 1,126 candidates representing 20 political parties and 219 independents.

76. By contrast, women move into the contested territory of meaning with assurance and inspiration.

77. A total of 24 parties, movements and coalitions contested the federal elections.

78. The requests may signal that the jurors are focusing on the hotly contested blood evidence.

79. On Wednesday, both sides of the hotly contested ballot initiative moved their battle into the courts.

80. It reflects the contested and dubious nature of the new president's mandate.

81. The range includes the new 1.6 Lantra in the hotly contested Ford Escort category.

82. Certain principles have never yet been contested in any court of law so that precedent for their consideration has never been laid down.

83. The attitude to foreign takeovers is now considered by studying the contested takeover for Rowntree.

84. The shared concept of scientific explanation was always contestable and has of late been radically contested.

85. If this was truly representative of tomorrow's task then the event would be fiercely contested.

86. These last propositions were hotly contested in the apostolic community.

87. The most vigorously contested races are for the Legislature,[sentence dictionary] where term limits have forced out 13 Bay Area incumbents.

88. In the 1984 Euro-election, when they contested only seventeen seats, they took 0.2 percent.

89. Shevardnadze was expected to set about forming a coalition among some of the 36 parties which had contested parliamentary seats.

90. The contested cases - which tend to attract more extended coverage - are very particular types of cases.

91. Among domestic mergers, the buyout of Credito Romagnolo was the most contested.

92. Frank Riggs, R-Windsor, whose district includes the hotly contested grove of old-growth redwoods.

93. They're contested, and require a certain amount of scientific literacy, which politicians seem to have even less of.

94. But privatization of any government function has been hotly contested issue in Sacramento.

95. The World Championship match will not be the first time the two players have contested a world title.

96. The foregut hypothesis was later contested.

97. The plaintiff contested the will.

98. The seat is being hotly contested among politicians.

99. They include ports on the Arabian Sea and a proposed rail project which has yet to be approved, but which would arouse controversy, and Indian ire, by running through contested territory in Kashmir.

100. Contested Guardianship proceedings will result in your Estate incurring needless expense.

101. The political independence of the BBC in Britain is unusual(), and is in any case contested by critics who complain that it is too left-leaning.

102. Tyrants' abuse of the principle of "self-determination" has been contested since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

103. He expects the final at Wembley to be fiercely contested, but he is also anticipating plenty of goalmouth action.

104. The exposure of the company files has contributed to Trafigura's climbdown after three years of bitterly contested legal battles.

105. He not only protested, but contested, and with some vehemence.

106. Mr Rudd contested the Federal seat of Griffith for the Australian Labor Party in 1996.

107. Hobbes contested the scientific systems of the natural philosophers Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle.

108. Yet again, the incarnation is contested, with a rival candidate, also in India, and some fishiness about the identification of the infant Ogyen Trinley.

109. The Asian Five Nations is the flagship IRB Asian Competition. It was introduced in 2008 and will be contested annually by Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan and the Arabian Gulf.

110. Short of a big political turnaround, it seems likely that space will be increasingly contested—with satellites on the front-line.

111. But Yankees and Red Sox pitchers have never contested the same Cy Young Award, never finishing in the top two in the vote since the award's inception in 1956.

112. The US SecurityExchange Commission's civil suit against Goldman Sachs will be vigorously contested by the defendant.

112. is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

113. The hotly contested energy bill ended up in a 50 - 50 tie.

114. A total of 155 validly nominated candidates contested the 60 Legislative Council seats.

115. The Triple Crown is contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and is won when one team defeats the other three during a Six Nations championship.

116. Fluorescent bird droppings may help shed light on contested predictions in ecology.

117. An alternative perspective is developed that considers the diffusion of lean construction across contested pluralistic arenas.

118. These ideas were also hotly contested by the CIA when I lectured to them in 1959.

119. "Thomism, " as it is known, acquired a special if not quite official status, though today in Catholic thought its reign is weakened and contested.

120. Mrs. Morel and Annie almost contested with Miriam who should listen best and win his favor.

121. At a contested carcass, they busily haul off one load of meat after another and hide it by burying it and camouflaging it with debris so that it is totally removed from view.

122. Second, it shows that the degree of transparency of the search process is a highly contested variable, which some concerns pressing for greater transparency and some pressing for less.

123. The Tri-Nations is the premier southern hemisphere competition. It is contested annually by Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

124. To blue-water war-fighters, all eager to point out that nobody has engaged in a contested landing since Okinawa or Inchon, China's amphibious platforms are insignificant.

125. In her first outdoor meet, she set a world record for 100m. The 1928 100m was the first women's track event to be contested in Olympic history.