The SAR contested the ladies' wheelchair fencing, judo and boccia events for the first time.
In the event that scores are deemed to be level, a fourth round is contested to find an overall winner.
Both actors compete for public support and governance becomes a contested arena.
The referee awarded a penalty, which was hotly contested by Bryansford, but Gavin Murdock wasn't put off and blasted to the net.
The match continued to be evenly contested after the interval and played mainly in midfield.
That the appellant notary acted in accordance with the then general notarial practice does not seem to be contested.
The concept of validity has been contested and is subject to further refinement.
A further refinement is to establish a standardized numbering system to label all structures in contested areas.
Run over three nights, the league was keenly contested with the outcome in doubt to the very end.
Though bitterly contested by isolationists, the bill became law in March 1941, and ten US Coastguard cutters were transferred to the Royal Navy.
Use of nuclear medicine in the treatment of thyroid disorders is usually contested.
Like most brewers with exposure to emerging markets, the bidding war for Bavaria has been hotly contested.
Police has contested news report about the recovery of a stolen vehicle from police station Safakadal, terming it baseless and fabricated.
Serving as a Guardian ad litem in a contested family law proceeding is a challenging job.
Four of the 12 listed starters were scratched as the race was contested over a turf course listed as soft.
The Pup of the Year title is fiercely contested, with previous winners having gone on to win Supreme Champion at Crufts.
All games were keenly contested and several matches were decided on tiebreakers.
The rest will feature game after game of hotly contested matchups with nightly playoff implications during the final two-dozen games or so.
I've learnt a huge amount from Geoff since we contested the Cambrian Rally and I'm very positive that we can have an excellent year.
In psychiatry different paradigms and approaches to treatment are hotly contested.
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It will provide a defensive umbrella for forces ashore in a contested theater and even on American shores themselves.
They also contested the opening match of the inaugural Asian test championship at Calcutta.
Because I'm a believer in democracy and I prefer a contested vote to an uncontested filling of a vacant position.
Five out of the six candidates for the three contested seats were in attendance along with four from the uncontested seats.
The separation period before divorce kicks in was reduced from five years to two in contested cases and two years to one in uncontested cases.
Both bills were vigorously contested by the opposition but carried by large majorities.
The way they contested one-on-one situations in that first half was encouraging.
The team then contested matches against an Ohakea invitational team, where the ADF proved too strong for their challengers.
Seven heads-up races were contested in Brainerd, all in the first four rounds.
Men's floor exercise, high bar, parallel bars, and women's vault and balance beam will be contested tomorrow.
It is contested terrain, which will no doubt continue to foster debate and dialogue.
Only four of the original 15 entrants scratched out of the race, which was contested over a muddy track.
Only seven older fillies and mares contested the Eatontown after six entrants scratched from the race, run over a soft turf course.
Overall it was a well contested game but it never rose above mediocrity with Rangers just about deserving their win.
The port visit also offered an opportunity for the crew to play sport with beach volleyball, rugby and golf being contested during the six days.
While those games in the A pool were fiercely contested, other teams employed a more reasonable approach.
Sadie and Joseph performed a freestyle dance, the lindyhop and charleston in Saturday's final, which was contested by three couples.
The North Cronulla U23s are proving one of the best in the state, having made the final of every surf carnival they have contested this season.
The pair's partnership finally collapsed when Gore's team lost the contested election by a ruling of the US Supreme Court.
An equally important, albeit contested, factor is the link between the single market and a single currency.
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Dietary dilemmas aside, the match promises to be a fiercely contested clash between two top rugby nations.
The rivalry lives on today with the team prize of a two-handed claymore still keenly contested between Scottish and English clubs.
However, earlier this month, rowing had one of its rare moments in the spotlight as Oxford and Cambridge Universities contested the Boat Race.
Public health action takes place on a terrain of contested meanings and unequal power, where different knowledges struggle for control.
It was representing Wolf hill as a delegate to the county board that he successfully contested the position of secretary.
After the Russian troops left Chechnya by 1997, he contested the presidential election there.
But by 1800, contested presidential elections were a regular feature of American government.
No one has any real doubt about who's won Egypt's first contested presidential election.
Methodology was contested in the election of eight senators out of a total of 7,500 posts filled.
Let's consider the facts surrounding the death of David, as opposed to the bitterly contested evidence.
Education and its reform were hotly contested topics of debate in Regency Spain.
Many of the countries contested they did not have to pay because of international laws that grant diplomatic immunity.
In the first semi-final, the grudge match between Albatross Old Boys and Albatross Two was always going to be a closely contested match.
The final day of competition was a grudge match of rugby contested between Adelaide and Arunta.
His father is convinced the accident was deliberately engineered and vows the claim will be contested.
He remembers planners using enlargements of his panoramic photos to model a contested expressway that would have linked the city's airports.
With both teams back on equal footing, the match became a fiercely and evenly contested battle.
An evenly contested first half saw only one point between the sides at the break.
The parliamentary draftsmen in 1996 widened the classes of people not eligible, so the clause now covers anybody who contested general elections.
The claims of the Bishops to the xenium, were afterwards contested by the Monks with much pertinacity.
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Cliff diving is an international sport with a world circuit contested by competitors from as far afield as Iceland and Brazil.
When voting itself took place, it was announced at the meeting that four male positions and three female positions were contested.
It appears that it will be a quite convention with none of the top positions been contested.
Last year, 17 candidates ran for board positions and only two executive positions were contested.
Waterford had several candidates for the highly contested positions and did very well to get three of these candidates elected.
The gratifying aspect of this was that each position was contested and resulted in the following being elected.
One look at a database shows how often this position is contested in grandmaster games.
This is a hotly contested issue in the state of Arizona, many other states in this country, certainly all of the border states.
The directive, which is up for review at the close of 2002, will no doubt be a hotly contested debate.
Even on the eve of what may be a hotly contested re-election campaign, the governor is supposed to lead, not divide.
It goes without saying that, for a golf event to be contested fairly, every competitor must play off the same tees.
It can only contested through a broad critique of the system from first principles, an uphill struggle that Lessig is leading.
The annual Kaman Cup golf day was contested at Nowra on November 24, with 256 players slugging it out on a somewhat sodden track.
Friday nights feature trophy events, and track champion drags are contested on Saturdays.
A contract was let unfairly and we contested it in front of a Federal judge.
Some of the constituencies may be hotly contested and therefore, competition is likely to be stiff.
Sports such as golf, tennis, squash, rugby and ten-pin bowling were contested.
The hotly contested question about cremation rites is not surprising, given their crucial status in the local religion.
It was the only untoward incident in an otherwise sportingly contested local derby.
If we take the words in brackets which are not contested, that leaves really two points in the section.
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A very closely contested competition resulted in countbacks having to be employed to decide the first three places.
Rather, they are contested systems that allow competing possibilities to be realised.
Few hotly contested sporting finals would see a manager argue the toss with a spectator questioning his tactics.
Murphy has contested the last six tournaments in a row and has no intention of stopping now.
But the past is a fraught and contested site which, like the sunshine state itself, can either be left pristine or concreted over.
Nansha is contested by PRC, Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia and the Philippines and comprises 104 islands, reefs, cays and banks.
We are simply stating the case that males from time immemorial always contested each other as part of the growing-up process.
Our Richard Quest has journeyed to just that place to gauge the vox populi in the hotly contested state of Florida.
He denied taking a bribe to fix any of the matches in the triangular series, contested by South Africa, England and Zimbabwe.
How many European elections are contested by foreigners with foreign accents?
The first half was eagerly and evenly contested with the best chance for Ardattin coming when Curry's shot clipped the crossbar.
The parties to contested actions are often at daggers drawn, and the litigious process serves to exacerbate the hostility between them.
For the first time in the match it was game on, the hurling was frantic and well contested with scores hard to come by.
Land hungry whites, Georgians in particular, continually encroached on Cherokee territory and contested Indian land ownership.
China's territorial boundary line is drawn extending around contested islands in the South China Sea.
Instead it stirred resentment both inside and outside the party, prompting Abdullah to say he would be willing to face a contested vote.
At this point, in the United States, that is a legally contested question and that contest may take several years to fully play out in the Courts.
The day was strongly contested with solid bowling from all the teams.
Here we had a mere fifteen year-old brought on as a substitute in a hotly contested senior final who was subsequently felled and left unconscious.
They could get a snootful of jet fumes as campaign planes shuttle candidates back and forth overhead between improbable destinations in closely contested states.
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With time allowing the first two second round heats to also be contested this afternoon, however, he was able to make amends and gained revenge over his wildcard opponent.
The two teams continued to fight on and both sets of defences dug in deep and contested every ball with stout-hearted blocking, hooking and tackling.
The game was strongly contested all through, two totally committed teams going for every ball with intent and this led to a degree of scrappy, stop-start hurling.
Yet, this pan-Canadian construction of citizenship was contested, particularly in Quebec where French Canadians did not feel comfortable in the new Canadian nation.
My own answers to those other questions can certainly be contested.
The distinctions between these two domains are frequently contested and debated in the realms of semiotics, structuralism, poetics, and aesthetics.
In 1843 Levi Suydam, a 23-year-old resident of Salisbury, Connecticut, asked the town's board of selectmen to allow him to vote as a Whig in a hotly contested local election.
They contested one county final in that time but had such a rich and bountiful supply of under-age talent that the senior team were regarded as underachievers.
There is fear that division of the province will ultimately see a dramatic increase in the numbers of military personnel stationed in the contested territory.
The status of the emancipist was one already hotly contested.
The counties and cities of Georgia had chosen their own voting machines for the last time, and Georgians had lost their ability to recount their votes in contested elections.
After a contested hearing His Honour Judge Bartfield made an order for possession on 7 June 2001, and on the same day granted permission to appeal to this court.
The opening match of the 7th World Cup will surely be the grudge match of the tournament and will no doubt set the scene for a fiercely contested title fight.
Although the audience wants to buy into elements of his contested position of affairs, it has a hard time doing so when the actor overplays his lines.
The scene of writing is a potential country-at-war, physically contested, overcompetitive, infected, an inescapable grid of emptiness and valuelessness.
None of the allegations made by the former pupils were contested.
The 40-year-old has come a long way from the political greenhorn that he was when he contested his first general election without a poster campaign.
In fact, the final outcome of the vote, like that of a slightly more publicized election, was delayed by absentee votes and a recount of contested ballots.
For the older boys and girls there were quad bikes and for the young horse enthusiasts there was the keenly contested junior hunt chase, and pony club games.
Portlaoise are still missing the style and dash that won them so many admirers as they swept through Laois and Leinster and contested an All Ireland club final this year.
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Jonsson provides an intriguing example of how local ethnicity and national integration are contested through sports competition and games among the Mien of northern Thailand.
But it's the so-called purple states that are bitterly contested.
Only two of the paid sabbatical positions were contested, adding to concerns raised during the hustings that OUSU was failing to display its relevancy to the student body.
He is the first soldier in the case to face a contested court martial.
The story that emerges is one of a contested and ever-shifting landscape that advanced, receded, and adjusted in relation to patterns of colonial settlement and incorporation.
She contested competitions and gained experience in general riding, equitation, show jumping, one-day events, cross country, stable management, riding and teaching.
The Mascot Grand National is as hotly contested as the slightly more famous horse race which bears the same name and this year's result was not without controversy.
Whitely was contested by his former wife and also his live in companion.
The senior A and B race, which is of classic status this year will be hotly contested as it is used as a selection race for early season Irish international teams.
Both candidates have agreed to another debate before this hotly contested election.
Beneath the veneer of landscapes, portraits and genre scenes, political rivalries roiled, and medals granted to entrants were contested hotly as matters of national pride.
Both teams get the chance to move ahead today, with the critical doubles rubber in the heat of the early afternoon promising to be a hotly contested affair.
The event at the Grange Hotel, which attracted 150 people, was generously supported by local companies, and some auction items were hotly contested.
The troops stated that their firing was in retaliation to a militant attack on them, a charge hotly contested by human rights groups in the state.
The party will need to weather 80-odd hotly contested preselections.
However, where possible, consent cases were squeezed in after or between the longer contested cases, which presented an opportunity to make up lost ground.
The question of whether more homeless people become mentally ill or whether more mentally ill people are sliding into severe poverty is hotly contested.
His political views could be contested but the notion that he would actually give information to the British about fellow comrades is literally risible.
The IOC also determines the Olympic programme, consisting of the sports to be contested at the Games.
The Sailing program was open for a total of five sailing classes, but actually only four Sailing events were contested.
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This marked the first time that a women's canoeing event had been contested in the Olympics.
Harald III of Norway, commonly known as Harald Hardrada, also contested the succession.
At issue here is the distinction between and the contested priority of thisworldly Others over the category of Otherness, and vice versa.
Shortly after the Restoration, he contested the succession of the Duchy of Albemarle, but lost.
However, the original authors published a response to this contested point.
Prior to becoming a member of parliament, Turner contested other elections for the Conservative Party.
Road races may involve both team and individual competition, and are contested in various ways.
The Swedish Individual Championship is contested by 18 riders in a Grand Prix format with 20 heats.
Sports that will be contested in Prince Albert are badminton, broomball, curling, hockey and volleyball.
The exact nature of biological and cultural interaction between Neanderthals and other human groups is contested.
After his expulsion the leadership of the Marcomanni was contested by their Suebic neighbours and allies, the Hermunduri and Quadi.
The new state power was contested by parliaments in other countries especially England.
Due to this ambiguous position, it is contested whether Jamtlandic belongs to the West Norse or the East Norse group.
As a young man, he rose through the ranks of the Roman army, serving in some of the most contested parts of the Empire's frontier.
The North East Party recently contested a by election in Peterlee though unfortunately lost the election by 30 votes.
The Royal Navy was sent to the contested waters in the last three Cod Wars, leading to highly publicized clashes.
The Portuguese empire expanded into the Persian Gulf as Portugal contested control of the spice trade with the Ottoman Empire.
For much of its existence, the realm was contested between French and Spanish dynasties.
The two competing Angevin lines contested each other for the possession of the Kingdom of Naples over the following decades.
Mirlande Manigat and Jude Celestin qualified for the second round of the presidential election, but its results were contested.
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The United States does not recognize any of the claims by Oman and Iran and has contested each of them.
Its origins are contested, but it may well have been a product of another wave of migration from Southeast Asia.
The Florida results were contested and a recount was ordered by the court, with the results settled in a court decision.
The modern usage of terms for mail armour is highly contested in popular and, to a lesser degree, academic culture.
The southeast corner of Siberia south of the Stanovoy Range was twice contested between Russia and China.
The government contested this power and on 19 March 1543 the council decided that all sentencing would be carried out by the government.
Plate fates The Cockney Mackem, Divers, Gilbarry and Hector's Choice all contested the Byrne Group Plate 34 days ago.
Scotland contested the first ever international football game in 1872 against England.
Stephen's contested accession initiated the widespread civil unrest later called the Anarchy.
This condition was contested by the Dauphin and the momentum of the war changed.
Between the 1680s and 1850s, they contested power with their rivals, the Tories.
Just four pigs contested the section Just four pigs contested the sec-title, all from Geraint and Gwyn Roberts, Cefn Arthen.
During the general elections of September 1780, Pitt contested the University of Cambridge seat, but lost.
The geopolitical definition and the use of terms such as Indian subcontinent, South Asian subcontinent and South Asia is a contested topic.
The United States contested these restrictions as illegal under international law.
This social position was contested, particularly by peasants, for example during the German Peasants' War.
Saint George is also one of the patron saints of the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Gozo although this has been contested.
North America outside the zone of Spanish settlement was a contested area in the seventeenth century.
The 2007 World Cup was contested by 94 countries with ticket sales of 3,850,000 over the pool and final stage.
After this setback, Fred and Walter contested the next four finals with Fred proving himself the stronger player.
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A match may be divided into sets, with each set being contested as over a fixed number of legs.
The first season of this arrangement saw the final being contested in home and away legs.
England lost only four Ashes Tests in the 1880s out of 23 played, and they won all the seven series contested.
The party contested few such elections in its early years, partly due to its ambivalence towards Westminster politics.
While this was partly due to an electoral pact between unionist candidates, the SF vote fell in the four constituencies they contested.
Only the Scottish National Party, the Scottish Labour Party and the Scottish Conservative Party contested all constituencies.
In the Orthodox Church, an Ecumenical council is the supreme authority that can be invoked to resolve contested issues of the faith.
Liza and her husband Lord Glendevon contested the change in Maugham's will in the French courts, and it was overturned.
His will was contested and in 1856, after a court battle, his first cousins, including Thomas Price Turner, received part of his fortune.
The legacy of Marx's thought has become contested between numerous tendencies, each of which sees itself as Marx's most accurate interpreter.
The oldest surviving such race, Doggett's Coat and Badge was first contested in 1715 and is still held annually from London Bridge to Chelsea.
Often there is a perpetual trophy that is awarded to the winner, the most famous of which is the Ashes contested between England and Australia.
It was a flat race, and it was contested over 3 miles on Cleeve Hill, which overlooks the present venue.
Beauregard analyzed the terrain that he still held and saw an advantage at Water Oak Pond, a hotly contested water feature on the battlefield.
Charles Lapworth resolved the conflict by defining a new Ordovician system including the contested beds.
The 38-year-old mum of four came top at the fiercely contested Hershey Expo in the US, with her precious poodle Dobby.
Senegal is named after the Senegal River, the etymology of which is contested.
A game of darts is generally contested between two players, who take turns.
Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few more contested than this.
The rival contested the dictator's re-election because of claims of voting irregularities.
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This paper explores the contested colonial landscape in Goffredo Alessandrini's feature film Abuna Messias.
Only Quercy was directly administrated by the Angevins after Henry II's conquest in 1159, but it did remain a contested area.
Catherine contested the proceedings, and a protracted legal battle followed.
This team contested the 2011 season having purchased a title sponsorship deal with the team, with the option to buy shares in the future.
About 15 Orangemen took part in a silent token parade past the contested shopfronts, jeered by nationalists and cheered by loyalists.
Nevertheless, the Heptonstall chapel has also contested for the title of oldest octagon chapel in continual use.
The two contested consecutive Challenge Cup finals in 1996 and 1997, and later in 2001, St Helens winning all three.
A commitment to hold a referendum in 2010 was part of the SNP's election manifesto when it contested the 2007 Scottish Parliament election.
The SNP contested all 59 Scottish seats and Plaid Cymru stood in all 40 Welsh seats.
Labour, Conservatives, Plaid Cymru, and Liberal Democrats contested all forty seats and there were 32 UKIP and 10 Green candidates.
The direction of the party, its leadership and organisation were heavily contested and the expected electoral progress did not emerge.
The first Open held on the new course in 1892 was the first tournament anywhere contested over four rounds, or 72 holes.
In the 1997 general election, she contested the constituency of Ogmore, coming third.
The dictator's last words are not known with certainty, and are a contested subject among scholars and historians alike.
Female inheritance was rare and often contested by male agnates, many of them quite remote.
If the TRO is contested, the court must decide whether to issue a preliminary injunction.
It is contested by the winners of each of the six FIFA confederation championships, along with the FIFA World Cup champion and the host country.
By 1304, Yury of Moscow contested with Mikhail of Tver for the throne of the principality of Vladimir.
The Rugby World Cup is a men's rugby union tournament contested every four years between the top international teams.
The following season Rangers contested the UEFA Cup after dropping into the competition from the Champions League.
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The totalistic picture of patriarchy painted by some feminists has long been contested by others.
The 1999 Super Cup was the last one contested by the winners of the Cup Winners' Cup.
Using a five-point scale that ranges from a 1 for blowout to a 5 for nail-biter, McInnes found closely contested games to be the most deadly.
Since then, the UEFA Super Cup was contested between the winners of the UEFA Champions League and the winners of the UEFA Cup.
He was too green to win but should have learned and this was probably a better race than the one Evanesce contested last week.
The 2000 Super Cup was the first one contested by the winners of the UEFA Cup.
Beard still lives, each essay makes clear, though whether continued resurrection or reinterment is the appropriate response remains contested.
The Tournament of Hearts and the Brier are contested by provincial and territorial champions, and the world championships by national champions.
A total of 18 sports and 261 medal events were contested at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each sport.
It was land contested between the United States and Canada as belonging to either Louisiana or Rupert's Land.
But after the man passed away his family contested the claim he was the biological father.
The continental shelves of most seabound nations are relatively rich in natural resources, and therefore they are hotly contested.
The role and use of money in a hypothetical socialist economy is a contested issue.
Each of these species has been argued to be a bipedal ancestor of later hominins, but all such claims are contested.
Many were given estates along the contested Welsh Marches, or in Ireland, where they protected the frontiers.
However his nephew Thomas Jones contested the will in the Court of Chancery.
Later, Castle Boys defeated Habara Show Stoppers 5-3 in a tightly contested match.
The Mademoiselles class was fiercely contested by the Dubois 45 metre sloop Lady B who outraced both Ganesha and Royal Huisman's Twizzie.
The league was played until April, and then the Celtic Cup was contested amongst the top eight teams.
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The second Welsh League tournament was contested between Ebbw Vale, Merthyr Tydfil and Treherbert.
The bout was closely contested and went the entire 15 rounds, with Louis being unable to knock Farr down.
The Gran Turismo race was contested by Lancia Aprilia, Cisitalia 202B, Stanguellini GT 1100, Fiat 500, Alfa Romeo 2500 and Fiat Zagato.
When the games are held in the same year as Summer Olympics, no marathon and racewalking events are contested.
Some exact yield estimates, such as that of the Tsar Bomba and the tests by India and Pakistan in 1998, are somewhat contested among specialists.
Each of these have been argued to be a bipedal ancestor of later hominins but, in each case, the claims have been contested.
Five events were contested, with the United States winning four total medals.
Four events were contested, all open to both men and women, although all medals were won by men.
The Challenge Cup was launched in 1897 and it was St Helens who contested its first final with Batley, at Headingley, Leeds.
The competition is contested every two years with the venue alternating between courses in the United States and Europe.
Both are contested at the end of the year and are the last official competitions of the ATP and WTA seasons.
A total of 19 McLaren GT customer teams contested the 2013 season, entering 108 races across 15 championships globally.
Matches are contested over legs rather than sets, presenting the prospect of some surprising results and upsets.
The 2007 World Final was contested between Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld.
Taylor had missed a total of 23 darts at doubles and, in doing so, suffered his sixth defeat in a major PDC final out of the 72 he had contested.
This began a period of six months in which Davis and Griffiths contested almost all the major tournament finals.
This was the first America's Cup to be contested without an American challenger or defender.
Most legal cases were contested privately between opposing parties, with the brehons acting as arbitrators.
At the 1983 General Election, the Alliance won over a quarter of the vote, but only 23 of the 650 seats it contested.
Voter registration was lacking, and many boroughs were rarely contested in elections.
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The two towns regularly meet to play football at Easter with the Cyril Barker Shield being contested every year.
There are regular sailing regattas on national holidays, such as Carnival, which are contested by locally built and designed boats.
This is no longer being contested by the Guernsey Government and several private firms.
In the 1959 election, the party contested a majority of Welsh seats for the first time.
Nine events were contested, eight for men, and one for women.
But my adopted role as birdwoman of the Holme Valley is fiercely contested by my mother who feeds her birds almost religiously and with all manner of goodies.
In the fourth Assembly she became Plaid's health spokesperson and unsuccessfully contested the leadership election following the resignation of Ieuan Wyn Jones.
Eleven events were contested, six for men and five for women.
It was contested among ten teams from Australia and New Zealand.
Saints contested several finals in the modern game with now the now defunct Bradford Bulls, following up from their vast successes respectively in previous decades.
They have contested the last three Super League finals, but the rugby they have produced in recent years is considered amongst the best in Super League.
The English contested Spanish control over what today is Georgia, and ultimately destroyed the Franciscan mission system in Guale, Timucua, and Apalache.
As a result, fundamental global norms such as sovereignty and non-intervention are evolving in an increasingly contested way, in contrast to common theoretical expectations.
April at Silverstone is not the warmest place to be but nonetheless F3000 contingent contested the first round of the 1989 International F3000 Championship.
Because the western boundary was contested at the time of the Purchase, President Jefferson immediately began to organize three missions to explore and map the new territory.
The history of English nationalism is a contested area of scholarship.
Sturgeon contested her first election as SNP leader at the 2016 election.
Rather than a total subversion, the caizi masculinity negotiated and contested with other types of idealized masculinities in premodern Chinese culture.
The Libertarian Party was founded in 2008 and has contested several local elections and parliamentary constituencies, gaining some local councillors.
He also contested and won Merthyr Tydfil in the 1900 election.
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The slavery issue was not legally contested until the Somerset case of 1772, which concerned James Somersett, a fugitive black slave from Virginia.
However others have contested the strength of this argument.
London Blacks vocally contested slavery and the slave trade.
The early history of the triangular frame harp in Europe is contested.
In the closely contested 2000 election, the state played a pivotal role.
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition contested the 2011 local elections, having gained the endorsement of the RMT June 2010 conference, but gained no seats.
The SDP formed an alliance with the Liberal Party which contested the 1983 and 1987 general elections as a centrist alternative to Labour and the Conservatives.
Following Cameron's resignation on 24 June 2016, May successfully contested the Conservative leadership contest and became Prime Minister on 13 July.
Harriet Harman acted as leader while the election was contested.
The occupation was not militarily contested by the British until the 1982 Falklands War, during which time British sovereignty was restored by a contingent of Royal Marines.
The Scottish Green Party contested just three constituencies.
A United Nations official has said contested elections for Iraq's new parliament are transparent and credible, and said there was no justification in calls for a re-run.
Four diving events were contested, two for men, and two for women.
Some of Posidonius's arguments are contested by Josephus in Against Apion.
Nine events were contested, eight for men and one for women.
Argentina had established Corbeta Uruguay in 1976, but prior to 1982 the United Kingdom had contested the existence of the Argentine base only through diplomatic channels.
The British government, which owned the AIOC, contested the nationalisation at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, but its complaint was dismissed.
The role of sharia has become a contested topic around the world.
This paved the way for the world's first intercontinental football competition, at the 1920 Summer Olympics, contested by Egypt and 13 European teams, and won by Belgium.
At first, his Commentaries were hotly contested, some seeing in them an evil or covert attempt to reduce or codify the common law which was anathema to common law purists.

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