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The Internet is a politically contested space.
The Premier League is a very closely contested league.
English football pleases me a lot. It's the most keenly contested.
Civilisation is slippery, the word has multiple and contested meanings.
I was never in politics before I contested the Lok Sabha by-elections after my father's death.
Every team going to Brazil 2014 will be there to win, and it's going to be a fiercely contested World Cup.
I certainly didn't see the mayor's withdrawal coming. I was looking for a highly contested mayoral campaign.
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
If a guy hits seven contested threes, tip your hat off to him. Good game. But in most of the cases, that won't happen.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
My goal is simple - try and make sure my guy doesn't score. And if he does, make sure it's a contested two, or a tough shot.
If I'm contested, I'm not going to shoot the pull-up 3. But if I'm wide open and someone backs up off me, I'm gonna shoot it.
I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.
That's something that I do pride myself on: making those tough and contested catches, whether it's in the red-zone or on third down.
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
There's always areas of the game you want to improve. For me, specifically, yards after the catch, making those tough, contested catches.
Now, I love Israeli food, love 'Jerusalem: A Cookbook', love the homey exoticism, the fusion forged in the crucible of an eternally contested crossroads.
While imperfect, the electoral college has generally served the republic well. It forces candidates to campaign in a variety of closely contested races, where political debate is typically robust.
I'm definitely a veteran. No question. And it always makes me laugh when the younger guys tell me they remember where they were when I contested a certain match. It makes me feel old, but it's cool to hear that.
Because it's difficult to have a career as an artist, and in every situation where it's difficult to have a career, it's even harder for women, for all the other reasons that it's harder in other fiercely contested fields.
The stuff I write about doesn't, like, necessarily leave people feeling warm and fuzzy. I'm writing in a territory that's, like, contested and full of prickliness. And I find that people project their problems onto me or something.
Trying to guard Kawhi on an island by yourself is tough. You gotta take the basket away and push him to your help. You want him to take a contested shot as far away from the basket as possible, because his mid-range game is phenomenal.
But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.
I don't really think it's appropriate for me to be picking and choosing in the primaries. It's pretty dumb politics for a Republican to choose between Republicans in a contested primary because obviously you're going to be offending some people.
Stories are one of the most powerful forces of persuasion available to us, especially stories that fit in with our view of what the world should be like. Facts can be contested. Stories are far trickier. I can dismiss someone's logic, but dismissing how I feel is harder.
The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.
It's been a part of my game for life. It's tougher to finish in the lane so you've got to find different areas to score efficiently and the mid-range contested shot is a shot a lot of teams will live with. And it's a shot I'm willing to live with as well just because I've gotten so many shots at it and I'm comfortable with it.