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Example sentences for: contesting

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In America, similarly, the Federalist party and the Republican Democratic party were contesting with each other for the exclusive title of friends to the constitution of the United States in the 19th century.
Twelve of the 48 parties contesting the election are Muslim-based, and some want to make Islam the country's established religion.
In all of these other cases, Lind says, the United States understood the importance of winning or at least contesting the proxy fight: mounting an airlift to Berlin, arming Taiwan, fighting in Korea, making clear that it would resist any further push on these frontiers.
But it's obvious to the rest of us that contesting this nomination on the basis that Lee might be an activist in government is rank hypocrisy.
Skeptics said the president simply realized that contesting defense spending would be unpopular.