contest
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In 2009, up to three million people protested a contested election result in what became known as the Green Movement.
Labour has won the most seats at every previous Senedd contest, but without a majority it has always had to strike a deal of some kind with an opposition party.
From BBC
One person familiar with the process said that the contest remains between Warsh and Hassett, and that the front-runner “sort of depends on the day.”
In “The Cradle of Citizenship,” Mr. Traub relates his yearlong exploration of the politically contested ground of the American classroom, which remains, he writes, one of the few “civic levers” we have left to pull.
Upper estimates of death tolls in those cases reached just over 1,000, though those figures are also contested.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
