They remained in political opinion on all the great contested questions of the day exactly where they had been when Parliament met in January 1885, and they sat in the same places and among the same party.
Leaders on both sides, swept to and fro by turbulent cross-currents, took refuge in ambiguous obscurity, even where the most fiercely contested questions were concerned.
From this vantage-ground she viewed the game; remembering every card, and gave a casting voice on sundry contested questions.
It was a strange friendship in a place where a cat's right to live at all is contested every hour of the day, and where nine times nine lives would not cover a span of more than a few months at the most, as a rule.
It is not possible, as well-attested facts prove, perfectly to explain the operations at work in the much-contested upper boundaries of our atmosphere.
In 1885 he again contested the county of Inverness as the official Liberal candidate against Reginald Macleod in the Tory interest and Charles Fraser-Mackintosh as the Independent Land Law Reform candidate, when he was again defeated.
He quickly withdrew his plea, and paid, as did those abashed brothers, the contested note.
He had attended the case at two terms of court, had been engaged for two days in a hotly contested suit, and his client’s adversary was going to pay the bill.
During a vigorously contested canvass, the Whigs raised a purse of two hundred dollars which Joshua F.
He had carried all before him through a hotly contested trial; but in the supreme hour, when nothing remained save to gather the fruits of victory, his hand fell limp at his side.
The danger is in the large number of contested seats--real and pretended.
But we are put to great odds when 30 or 35 of our districts are neutralized by contested claims, and in all this part of the State the mass of the patronage of the genl.
Pennsylvania is the most doubtful State in the Union, and has always decided contested Presidential elections.
Every foot of the ground was bravely contested by the Mexicans.
The battle was fought by Sickles's Federal Third Corps, that heroically contested every inch of the ground.
Over the contested field of the first battle of the war, Longstreet had borne the victorious banners of the South.
In half an hour the contested field was cleared and the battle of Gettysburg was over.
At the end of a month we had lost more officers and as many men as a smartly-contested battle would have cost us, and instead of being weaker we were distinctly stronger for it.
We had heard though we had not seen the fight at Salem Church, a bitterly contested but drawn battle in which many hundreds of brave men fell.
Luther promised to keep quiet and to submit the decision of the contested points to three worthy bishops.
When, in 1640, Frederick William succeeded to the Electorate, he found nothing but contested claims to scattered territories of some thirty thousand square miles.
Sometimes the ground was held and contested for several minutes, and at others only for a very brief period.
Unfortunately, contested election cases are not always settled on their merits, the seat being usually given to the claimant who belongs to the party which has a majority in the house.
In England this source of party favoritism is removed by vesting the settlement of cases of contested elections in the courts, which are more apt to decide such contests on their merits.
Frequently there is a contested election from a state or district, that is, two men claim to have been elected to the same seat, in which case the house must decide which one is entitled to the seat.
A vision of a light blue coat and cap flits before his mind; he sees himself in fancy wresting a fiercely contested victory from the clutches of Oxford, and cheered and f[^e]ted by a countless throng of his admirers.
He recognized, at the same time, the legitimacy of the ambition of his friends, and entertained no suspicion or rancor if they contested places with him.
The Parliament was convened for the despatch of business on the 9th, and having disposed of some contested elections proceeded energetically to work.
It is the common remark, too, that never before was a subject contested in this body with such obstinacy, not to say bitterness.
While they were defending one hotly-contested point, the enemy forced another, and before they were well aware of their misfortune, a large body of knights had gained the eastern side of the dyke.
The Maccabees and John Hyrcanus contested Mareshah, two miles off, with the Idumeans.
The battle was again renewed in this place, and obstinately contested with equal valour on both sides; but with great disadvantage on the part of the natives, who were far inferior in arms and discipline to the Spaniards.
The engagement continued more than two hours, and was one of the bloodiest and hardest contestedever fought in Chili.
Night had come, both sides were worn out, neither of the two great adversaries cared to risk another struggle, and the bitterly-contested battle of Sharpsburg was over.
The brave fighting-men had not taken his reputation on trust, but had seen him win it fairly on some of the hardest-contested fields of history.
Every step was thus contested with sharp-shooters and the Horse-Artillery, from far below to above New-Hope Church.
The first fiercely contested debate in the new Congress was over the question of titles.
The rivalry between these classes had been keen before, and was still bitterly contested when Chuntche first asconded the throne; but victory had finally inclined to the side of the Yellow Caps before the fall of Galdan.
He attacked them, and a severely contested struggle ensued, in which at first the Taepings carried everything before them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contested" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
