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How To Use contested In A Sentence

• After putting its energy into the 2008 acquisition of Northwest Airlines, the Atlanta-based carrier plans to spend more than $2 billion through 2013 to lure travelers with new flat-bed seats, video on demand and upgraded facilities in hotly contested markets such as New York. Delta Refocuses
• The seat was being hotly contested among the politicians.
• Had Diego Milito's goal in the first leg been correctly ruled out for being sixty-miles offside, or had Barça's totally valid goal not been shambolically dismissed, then Barcelona would have contested the final in Madrid. How do you like your sour grapes, Señor Xavi Hernández? | Richard Williams
• Democrats ran candidates in every subcircuit seat, and won most of those they contested. ILLINOIZE
• It appears that it will be a quite convention with none of the top positions been contested.
• The concept of validity has been contested and is subject to further refinement.
• The group stage, the most hotly contested part of the negotiations, was once again rather thin in terms of surprises. Times, Sunday Times
• These may not address their Majesties, but they may stare; nor will it be contested that the attentive circular eyes of the humble domestic creatures are an embellishment to Royal pomp and grandeur, such truly as should one day gain for them an inweaving and figurement -- in the place of bees, ermine tufts, and their various present decorations -- upon the august great robes back-flowing and foaming over the gaspy page-boys. The Egoist
• Others argue that the workshop was only carried out to increase municipal authority over contested forest areas, and the resulting municipal policy failed to reflect the needs of families who require fuelwood for subsistence.
• It should be diverting parents away from contested hearings into the making of parenting plans. Times, Sunday Times