What's the difference between contested and uncontested?

Contested


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Contest

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The size of Florida makes the kind of face-to-face politics of the earlier contests impossible, requiring instead huge ad spending.
  • (2) Since the election on 7 March there has been a bitter contest for power in Iraq led by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
  • (3) It is understood that Cooper rejected pressure from senior Labour figures last week for both her and Liz Kendall to drop out and leave the way clear for Burnham to contest Corbyn alone.
  • (4) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
  • (5) This is contested by the report of three cases of dilatation of Stensen's duct complicated by lithiasis and stenosis, with associated canalar pseudo-cysts.
  • (6) But in each party there are major issues to be dealt with as the primary phase of the contests slips gradually into the rear-view mirror.
  • (7) It was not just that there was only one female candidate – Berger – across four contests.
  • (8) Who's backing who in the Tory leadership contest The dramatic events have put May well in the lead in parliament, with the public backing of well over 100 MPs, including 10 cabinet ministers, followed by Leadsom, with just under 40 MPs, and then Michael Gove and Stephen Crabb with over 20.
  • (9) South Korea was put on high alert a year ago amid fears that the North was about to provoke a clash in the contested waters of the Yellow Sea.
  • (10) His formal entry into the contest marks a key moment in the nascent race for the Republican nomination, which is set to be the most congested presidential primary either party has held since 1976.
  • (11) 9.59am GMT Summary We’ll leave you with a summary of what transpired here throughout the day: • Julia Gillard announced a contest for her position as prime minister following calls by Simon Crean, a senior minister in her government, for her to be replaced by her predecessor, Kevin Rudd • Shortly before the ballot was to take place Kevin Rudd announced he would not stand for the Labor Party leadership , re-iterating his promise to the Australian people that he would not challenge Julia Gillard • When it came time for the ballot, Gillard was the only person who stood for the leadership and she and her deputy Wayne Swan were elected unopposed .
  • (12) Buhari has described himself as a “converted democrat” who repeatedly contested and lost elections after civilian rule was restored 16 years ago.
  • (13) This study analyzed the cost-effectiveness and distribution of costs by program stage of three smoking cessation programs: a smoking cessation class; an incentive-based quit smoking contest; and a self-help quit smoking kit.
  • (14) Jeremy Corbyn 'would increase mandate if he faced leadership contest' Read more Inside a ground floor hall, there are already no empty seats.
  • (15) The contours of the next Labour leadership contest are hard to see at the moment.
  • (16) The show is so out of touch that 17-year-old contestant Nicholas McDonald complained to Dermot live on air during week five that none of the genres had happened within his lifetime.
  • (17) José Mourinho ended this breathless contest on his knees with a sliding, turf-surfing celebration that was fuelled by relief as much as joy.
  • (18) Summer Zervos: Apprentice contestant claims Trump kissed and groped her Read more “There’s an old principle,” said William Galston , a former adviser to Bill Clinton and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
  • (19) Tonight the BBC's new singing contest The Voice goes head to head with Simon Cowell's Britain's Got Talent on ITV.
  • (20) Excretion of zinc and especially of silicon through the kidneys and intestine drastically grew on the day of the contest.

Uncontested


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, that only applies when the dropped ball is uncontested, as they often are inside the area.
  • (2) It will also include proposals to introduce television cameras into courts, reform judicial appointments and allow magistrates sitting on their own to operate from community centres and police stations to deal with low-level uncontested cases within days or even hours of arrest.
  • (3) The testimony relating to the Gadahn video was uncontested by the defence, even though the video was released several months after Manning was arrested in Iraq where he was working as an intelligence analyst.
  • (4) Sturgeon will take over as SNP party leader on Friday after an uncontested leadership election, but will not formally be sworn in as Scotland’s first female first minister until her expected election by MSPs on Wednesday and a formal swearing-in ceremony on Thursday in Scotland’s supreme civil court, the court of session.
  • (5) And yet, in all probability, there will never be a set of clean, uncontested, verifiable facts, set out like exhibits in the public domain, for us all to handle.
  • (6) At the frontline, the picture is murkier but richer: there's plenty of data (at least in acute settings) but this is rarely uncontested and often hard to unpick.
  • (7) Ten years ago Mexico completed a velvet transition to democracy after 71 years of one-party rule with the opposition winning an uncontested victory in presidential elections and the economy growing at 6.6%.
  • (8) It will also include proposals to introduce television cameras into courts, reform judicial appointments and allow magistrates sitting on their own to operate from community centres and police stations so they can deal with low-level, uncontested cases within days or even hours of a suspect's arrest.
  • (9) But if you believe ideas have power, then you must believe in the power of bad ideas to harm when they are left uncontested.
  • (10) Many accounts, including the club's version on its website, cite missile throwing by Italian fans as the spark for violence, a claim contested by other eye-witnesses, but the broad facts are uncontested.
  • (11) 3.50am BST Heat 65-64 Spurs, 6:26 remaining, third quarter Uncontested layup for My Australian Guy gives the Spurs a brief lead, but it's oh so very brief as Rashard Lewis, Rashard Lewis, hits another three-pointer.
  • (12) Uncontested is the contribution of chronic hyperglycemia in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy.
  • (13) China knows it is becoming an uncontested superpower; indeed its newfound muscular confidence was on striking display in Copenhagen.
  • (14) Qwabe says: “I was trying to think about how the world would have reacted if it was a Houlocaust comeback or something which is globally uncontested as historical injustice.” Kiran Benipal, a classics student and co-founder of Rhodes Must Fall In Oxford, says it’s rare a week goes by in Oxford without an incident of racial discrimination or insensitivity.
  • (15) The diagnostic value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in multiple sclerosis (MS) is uncontested.
  • (16) The real argument is uncontestable: that by dragging this out, elderly victims might never achieve justice and redress for their appalling treatment.
  • (17) Temporary atrial pacing leads have uncontested utility for diagnosis and treatment of postoperative supraventricular arrhythmias.
  • (18) Our unanimous report, Children in Military Custody , found that the uncontested facts (we did not rely on disputed ones) showed Israel to be regularly violating at least six important provisions of the UN convention on the rights of the child as well as the ban in the Geneva conventions on transporting prisoners across frontiers – something to which Israel, of all countries, should be sensitive.
  • (19) The monkeys hit the target in significantly less time on contested than on uncontested trials.
  • (20) We have concluded that the 1,400 figure is a conservative one and that RMBC and South Yorkshire police (where some also dispute the figures) would do better to concentrate on taking effective action rather than seeking to continue a debate about the numbers.” Casey said she considered it an uncontested fact that children in Rotherham were “sexually exploited by men who came largely from the Pakistani heritage community” and that not enough was done to acknowledge this, stop it happening, protect children, support victims and apprehend perpetrators.

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