Sentences with phrase «contested between»

Parliamentary time used to be a precious asset, contested between ministers at cabinet almost as bitterly as the public spending round.

Lots of violent cases were recorded in the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions, a development that raised fears as to what might happen in the general elections which promises to be keenly contested between the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the largest opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

One of those vacancies is here in Westchester, for Latimer's old seat in the 37th District, being contested between Killian and Mayer.

The term «competitive» is not used to declare which states are hotly contested between political parties.

Although no electoral system is perfect, and the UK's First Past the Post method is worse than most, parliamentary elections are a better expression of democracy because unlike a referendum, there is no clear agenda setter: the agenda is contested between parties and candidates, the media, and, increasingly, via the internet, the voters themselves.

15 — The quarter - final between Wales and Belgium will be contested between the two highest - scoring nations at Euro 2016 (Belgium — 8, Wales — 7 goals).

15 — This match will be contested between the two highest - scoring nations at Euro 2016 (Belgium — 8, Wales — 7 goals).

The 1998 UEFA Super Cup was contested between Cup Winners» Cup holders Chelsea and UEFA Champions League winners Real Madrid, then managed by future FA Cup - winning Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink.

Group H is tightly contested between those 3 nations but things in this group might suffer a dramatic change as Croatia is in danger of getting some of their points removed or might even be kicked off from the tournament due to an incident which occurred back in June 12 when Croatia hosted Italy in the Polijud Stadium in a match that concluded with a final scoreboard of 1 - 1.

It is an annual match contested between the champions of the previous...

There have been two previous FA Cup replays contested between these two and Liverpool won through on both of those occasions too (Round 3 in 1950 and 1991).

It's one of the biggest rivalries in world football and it is contested between the two most successful clubs...

The final match day next month will see the Europa League qualification spot contested between Apoel and Dortmund, who both have two points from their five matches.

But for me the super cup would be contested between the league winners and fa cup winners (or if a team wins the double the the league cup winners or league runners up) and given some importance, like a bye in the league cup or fa cup.

The first final was eventually contested between a Barcelona side (comprising 10 players from FC Barcelona plus one from Espanyol) and a London XI (which, rather more in the spirit of the thing, featured players from all over the capital, including Chelsea's Jimmy Greaves and Fulham's Johnny Haynes).

The University Golf Match is the annual golf match contested between the Oxford and Cambridge Full Blues teams.

In reality, Arab tribes and ethnic groups were very powerful indeed long before this, and some formed influential states in the lands that we would today think of as Jordan, Iraq and Syria, territories contested between the two great empires.

The competitive contest between Lipinski and Marie Newman, a first - time candidate who won 49.1 % of the primary voters, became a flashpoint for simmering tensions between the national Democratic Party's centrist and liberal wings, drawing months of national attention.

«If Larry could make the world think there was a contest between him and Bill Gates,» Wilson told Canadian Business, «that was good for Larry and bad for Bill.»

Conventional wisdom depicts this slump as the result of a zero - sum contest between online and in - person shopping, where Amazon (amzn) and its ilk unstoppably siphon money away from stores.

About a year after I started doing this stuff, I broke some big record, a 72 - ounce steak in seven minutes, and after I posted that video I got asked by an eating organization to come down to San Diego in 2008 for something called the Collegiate Nationals, a contest between all the college eaters and university eaters of North America.

Why it matters: Wish is complicating the narrative that the battle for global e-commerce dominance will be a three - way contest between Amazon, Alibaba and Walmart.

But the Enquirer also stepped in a few months later, as the primary contest between Trump and Ted Cruz got increasingly nasty.

Political parties failed to form a coalition government after May 6 elections, triggering another contest between the pro-bailout New Democracy conservatives and left - wing Syriza party that has promised to cancel the terms of the country's rescue loan agreements.

On the Wheat Board, who should prevail in the contest between the Parliament of 1998 and the Parliament of 2011?

Reverend Miller was first elected in 2004 with 35 % of the vote in a close three way contest between himself, high - profile NDP candidate Larry Booi, and PC MLA Drew Hutton, and he was defeated by now - Culture Minister Heather Klimchuk in 2008 by 104 votes.

fishon — «I have no idea who started the pissing contest between you and I, and I will not waste my time checking, but by your above statement I will guess you.»

But if there was a contest between the gods weighing out their «good» and «bad» traits.....

The fact that Detweiler wrote the album's title track is a victory in the ongoing, friendly contest between the couple that plays out in their music (Bergquist wrote the title tracks for Ohio and Drunkard's Prayer).

Let's hold a contest between all those to who hold differing religious (or atheist) views to see who can be the most peaceable, kindest and do the most good for humanity and then declare everyone to be the winner at the end.

That is how one American senator described the choice in this year's US presidential contest between the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and the Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Whenever there is a contest between etiquette and acknowledged virtues, etiquette loses.

But the whole contest between God and Pharaoh must be interpreted by what God said to Moses before ever the contest started: «The king of Egypt will not» (Exod 3:19).

The fight for religious liberty is the age - old contest between the King and the Church, between Caesar and the Truth.

The contest between the prophets of Baal and the prophet of Yahweh (Elijah) is under way, and Baal's prophets have induced the seizure and are sustaining it in an effort to evoke a tangible response from their deity.

In a contest between our nostalgia and their nostalgia, their nostalgia will win.

@Rainer, «Theory of evolution is very harmful because it teaches the survival of the fittest, a contest between all human beings.

So you're saying that you want to have a lying contest between the two candidates?

Or, to return to a description of the Jacob cycle in terms of tension, it is characterized by a tension between human perversity and divine grace, a tension resolved only in the obvious final inequality of any contest between man and God.

As I wrote in a different post about a Trunk - or - Treat I attended, if you feel that Halloween is some sort of contest between Jesus and the devil, one sure way to «win» is by giving away lots of candy.

He goes on to say that «interesting philosophy» of the sort done by the pragmatists is really «a contest between an entrenched vocabulary which has become a nuisance and a half - formed new vocabulary which vaguely promises great things.»

In order to reach such an optimistic conclusion, the authors sometimes use the least common denominator to define religion, enabling them to detect religious overtones in settings as diverse as a «Jello wrestling» contest between the dean of students and the college chaplain and the crowning of a homecoming queen.

Hegel says: «America is... the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself — perhaps in a contest between North and South America.

The ensuing debate too often takes the form of a contest between defenders of traditional morality on the one hand and apologists for homosexual life style on the other.

«10 The advent of the kingdom and of its justice is the stake of an immense contest between God and the Prince of the world, sanctioned by the «judgment» of God on the world and the fall of Satan.

In the Gospel of Luke, there seems to be an ongoing contest between King Herod and King Jesus.

This issue becomes vividly evident in the contest between «big business» and «organized labor,» and the effort of both to secure government backing for their interests.

If you think Halloween is some sort of contest between Jesus and the devil, just think of candy as the way children keep score.

Due to a voter - approved initiative that has the two highest primary vote - getters appearing on the general election ballot regardless of party, some November races for major state offices are contests between a leftwing Democrat and a radical Democrat.

It's really no contest between that and getting a woman's tubes tied.