Contested
Meanings and phrases
contested
- disputed or made the object of contention or competition
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- The series was contested between Deportivo Toluca F.C.
- The match was contested between Japanese team Kashiwa Reysol, the 2013 J.
- These were primarily contested between local-level clubs or regions/states.
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- Geoffrey Pattie unsuccessfully contested Barking in 1970.
- Save Britain's Heritage unsuccessfully contested the conversion.
- At the 1885 general election he unsuccessfully contested North Norfolk.
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- In 2002 it first contested in elections and won 5 seats.
- He first contested in the 2011 District Council election in Yan Ying.
- A men's 200 metres hurdles was first contested in1 1953 but stopped after 1963.
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- In a hotly contested match, VP came out on top.
- That will definitely become a hotly contested location."
- However, this discovery was hotly contested.
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- Two events were contested: men's and women's team.
- These two events were contested only at the 1900 Summer Games.
- In total, 36 events were contested, 21 by men and 15 by women.
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- From the 2018-19 season, the teams contested in three-tiers.
- Twelve teams contested the World Cup.
- Twelve teams contested the league.
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- A total of 9 parties contested the election.
- In 1297 de Pairaud contested the election of Jacques de Molay as grand master.
- Year 2002-Dr. Dyanand Chadila and his wife again contested the election for M.C.D.
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- The fight was closely contested throughout.
- The game itself was closely contested.
- Sanader was reelected in the closely contested 2007 parliamentary election.
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- He again contested the seat in 1924 but lost by 95 votes.
- Patten contested the seat of Higgins in Victoria at the 2009 by-election.
- A single independent candidate, Attorney-at-law Ralph Francis, contested the seat of Barbuda.
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- The party contested the 1982 municipal elections.
- The party contested the 2014 general election.
- No Islamic party contested the 1999 elections.
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- In 2012, he successfully contested from Dharamkot.
- That time his seat was successfully contested by Republican candidate Lynch.
- Blandford had successfully contested the matter in court, even though she had a child by him.
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- The final was contested by the semifinal winners.
- The final was contested in a neutral ground as a one-off match.
- The final was contested in a single leg format between Liga MX clubs Necaxa and Toluca.
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- This was the first time Yorkshire had seen a contested election since 1741.
- She unsuccessfully contested election to Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Kota in 2008.
- Rana had contested election for a seat in the provincial assembly in Karachi but lost the election.
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- The bronze medal match contested between Russia and Spain was won by Spain, 93–85.
- 2018 EFL League Two play-off Final The 2018 EFL League Two play-off Final was a football match contested between Exeter City and Coventry City.
- Vitali Klitschko vs. Chris Byrd Vitali Klitschko vs. Chris Byrd, was a professional boxing match contested on 1 April 2000 for the WBO Heavyweight Championship.
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- A total of 313 candidates contested this election.
- 2017 was the first time 31 candidates contested from a single ward (164).
- A total of 331 candidates contested the remaining 59 seats up for election.
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- The match was contested by Portumna and De La Salle.
- The first Ryder Cup match was contested in June 1927.
- The match was contested between Japanese team Kashiwa Reysol, the 2013 J.
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- He contested and won all the six Assembly Elections since 1995.
- James contested and won the seat at the by-election on 16 December 1775.
- She contested and won the Bhopal seat during the Lok Sabha elections of 2019.
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- He has not contested any general elections since.
- The extradition request was not contested.
- However, it has not contested any elections in the region.
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- There were no contested elections for the Shropshire seats in Elizabeth's reign.
- The only known contested elections after 1715 were those of 1728, 1735 and 1736.
- Ramasamy has contested elections as both an INC and Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) (TMC) candidate.
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- In 2018 the league was contested by six teams from around New Zealand, with a total of 47 matches played between May and August.
- The league was contested by 55 teams in 4 divisions with GD Ribeirão, UD Oliveirense, SC Covilhã and CD Olivais e Moscavide winning the respective divisional competitions and progressing to the championship playoffs.
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- The championship was contested over eight rounds.
- The championship was contested over 8 rounds.
- The championship was contested over a seven heat series.
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- Twelve teams contested the league.
- A total of 17 teams contested the league, with MC Alger as the defending champions.
- A total of 16 teams contested the league, with ES Sétif as the defending champions.
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- 27 seats were contested in Western Cape province.
- The last time these seats were contested was in 2014.
- Five fewer seats were contested because of boundary changes.
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- The offer was highly contested, with some companies near the new tower protesting at its aimed size.
- In 2013 he moved up to the highly contested Supersport category with hopes of finishing in the top 5.
- In fact the team of 2000–01 defeated the United Colleges by 4–1 in a highly contested 'friendly' match.
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- He again contested the seat in 1924 but lost by 95 votes.
- In the , he again contested Christchurch East and was 53rd on the party list.
- Year 2002-Dr. Dyanand Chadila and his wife again contested the election for M.C.D.
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- List of Ryder Cup matches The Ryder Cup is a golf competition contested by teams from Europe and the United States.
- The Super Cup was an annual international rugby union competition contested by national teams from Canada, Japan, Russia and United States.
- The Bulimba Cup was a competition contested by the Brisbane, Ipswich and Toowoomba representative rugby league sides which started in 1925.
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- Eight matches were contested on the event's card.
- Varsity matches were contested at Wembley until 1989.
- Nine professional wrestling matches were contested at the event.
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- In the recent 2011 general election, it managed to capture 81 of 87 seats contested.
- This, however, did not stop Labour winning a comfortable majority of the seats contested.
- In the elections to the State Legislature in 1945 it won 12, of the 19 seats contested by its candidates.
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- He then ran at Royal Ascot for the third successive year when he contested the Rous Memorial Stakes over one mile.
- Connections, however, were not too disheartened and were sure their gelding would come on for the run when he contested the Grade 1 King George VI Chase at Cheltenham.
- Indeed, while he contested Canterbury as a Radical at a by-election in 1854, when he contested Beverley again in 1857, he stood as a Conservative despite losing the support of the local party.
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- The top four teams then contested the semi-finals.
- Pocket Watch then contested the Vicbred Super Series.
- It was then contested at each subsequent Summer Paralympics until 1988, with the exception of the 1980 Games.