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    contested


    1. Any word that is not decipherable is open to misinterpretation and can be contested later


    2. For example, if the testator never knew English but has the will drafted in that language, then it can be contested on the basis that the testator had no idea what he/she was signing


    3. The reason being the will can be contested later on the basis that force was involved in the signing of the will and the person was of unsound mind when doing so


    4. ‘This is absurd! My client has never contested the


    5. This decision cannot be contested


    6. It’s still being contested, last time we both checked


    7. Example: When he deployed one of our warships into Haiti during their contested elections for president, when the ship tied up, a group of rioters threw rocks at the ship


    8. Nixon had no intention of precipitating a constitutional crisis, which would surely happened had he contested the results of the election


    9. Democrats are still throwing a temper tantrum over that bitterly contested election nearly two years after its outcome has been (legally) decided


    10. This great rival to Ramses II’s Egypt contested for control of the Fertile Crescent lands of the Middle East for many centuries before it mysteriously disappeared from the historical record

    11. After all, this is one of the most hotly contested


    12. Technically, you could call it contested territory, but in reality we are as active and unhindered as ever


    13. His heirs, eager to become the chosen, as in the story of Joseph, contested with one another until they had caused the kingdom to split into two parts


    14. Peter) and the bishop of Constantinople vied for supremacy of the “faith” they were supposed to share, while together they contested for supremacy in the secular empire as it sank into chaos


    15. At some point in Man’s early development an appeal was thought to have been made to this Presence (there have been many representations for this entity who we now call God),to arbitrate between equally demanding claims to leadership in order to avert the chaos inherent within a physically contested resolution


    16. It was thought they might resist since they had a chain of strong points throughout the valley, but our crossing of their border was not contested, and when we presented ourselves at their ruler’s fortress palace, they immediately surrendered


    17. The Waylya had stoutly contested


    18. John Adams served from 1797 until 1801, but was defeated for a second term in the bitterly contested election of 1800 between Adams’ Federalists and the Republicans (now Democrats) of Thomas Jefferson


    19. It also bested the United Nations in a hotly contested category that


    20. As Gotimin explained, the human who had owned it previously had died, and his many heirs had contested his will for years, neglecting the ranch and it’s bills in the meantime, until the empire had seized it for unpaid taxes

    21. “The greatest tournaments are held in Felion, contested for the crowns of empires, and we went there for their advise on the enterprise


    22. Most of the events the gargoyles contested involved flight, and every race except the selkies had at least one such event, so the air in the crater and above it was the site of many impressive displays of skill


    23. The pairs of elves had the quickest victories, and they will be rewarded for this by having the most time to study their opponents and to plan tactics, since their match will be the last one to be contested


    24. Only those in their vicinity contested them


    25. Fisheries Service agent assisted by the Coast Guard used a proper mix of diplomacy and threatened fire power to avert an international incident in contested lobster waters in October 1972


    26. And those of us in Europe, the contested mother, what will we do?


    27. contested in traffic court but who has the time to diddle away 2 hours for a $25 ticket?


    28. She told them that she and her family did not have the money to pursue a claim on a contested will at the time they lived in Dublin


    29. contested God’s actions, due to the fact that


    30. Weeds contested to spring up about

    31. is contested by some scientists I believe it to be true


    32. Lezura contested two gufders, knowing they were taking their time to tire her out with repeated blows until she was exhausted enough for them to finished her off


    33. Rich in oil, this vilayet was contested also by Iraq and the dispute gave the Soviet Union the opportunity to revive her former standing with Turkey by concluding with her a new Treaty of Friendship and Neutrality


    34. The future of Azerbaijan, where we were, was now contested


    35. contested in court here in present day America


    36. What is not often shown about a will is that it is contested


    37. Wills are contested in long bitter rivalries that often leave no member of the family unscathed


    38. Barely visible as a dark mass about one kilometer away was the islet of Diaoyu Dao, as it was called by the People’s Republic of China, the biggest islet in the contested Diaoyu archipelago, which was also known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan and as the Tiaoyutai Islands in Taiwan


    39. Armed with apparently first class intelligence information about Jewish and Arab operations, two of the three infantry battalions under Dows’ command, strongly backed and supported by a fleet of helicopters and attack aircraft, had deployed observation posts around Northern and Central Palestine, near contested villages and towns, both Jewish and Arab


    40. The importance of these current àgents` that we regularly us is commonly noted out every time a traffic incident is contested out

    41. Family relationship is the greatest challenge every time this factor is being contested during breakdown of marriages


    42. All of these capsules of positive elements had been defined over statistics that were all èquated, balanced, twinned and leveledùp with our own sorts of lives and therefore cannot be challenged or contested out in any existing mode sincèwè had announced their


    43. The importance of these current `agents` that we regularly us is commonly noted out every time a traffic incident is contested out


    44. All of these capsules of positive elements had been defined over statistics that were all `equated, balanced, twinned and leveled` up with our own sorts of lives and therefore cannot be challenged or contested out in any existing mode since `we` had announced their `finite` lines


    45. In fact, one senior Congress minister who had contested several elections rang up Vora seeking funding for his campaign


    46. His first public comments after the victory were made at a thanksgiving speech in Vadodara, one of the two seats he had contested from


    47. In as many as 178 of the 464 seats that the Congress contested, the party’s candidates secured less than 16


    48. Out of the 432 seats which AAP contested, in 414 the party’s candidates secured less than one-sixth of the total votes polled, hence losing their security deposit


    49. In other words, in a little over three out of five seats that the AAP contested, the party could not even secure one per cent of the votes


    50. contested Banking Sector of the Security Market

































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    "contested" definitions

    disputed or made the object of contention or competition