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Small farmers that have been there 50 years and have deeds issued by the state or federal government, if you kick them out, there aren't conditions there for indigenous people to hunt and fish and have their lives, when the president says he doesn't want more demarcations, he's talking about this type of contested areas. – Tereza Cristina	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I just hope( Franklin's estate) doesn't end up getting so hotly contested, any time they don't leave a trust or will, there always ends up being a fight. – Los Angeles	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It was a very close election. Some of our members have lost primaries. That's just what happens in contested primaries. – Paul Ryan	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The scope of this is pretty contested now, courts are struggling through it. – Jennifer Granick	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Once a case is settled, that adds to the determinacy of the law, what was once a hotly-contested issue is no longer a hotly-contested issue. We move forward. – Neil Gorsuch	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It was a healthy thing for the Democratic Party to have a contested primary. – Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We look forward on Tuesday to doing very well, there will be a contested convention. … Super delegates can and have changed their candidate choice in the past. – Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
In other words, the convention will be a contested contest. – Bernie Sanders	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We are headed to Cleveland. There will be a contested convention. – Ted Cruz	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
New York , Sanders vowed. The Republicans were battling for 95 delegates. Republican Donald Trump, originally from Queens, would need to win more than 50 percent of the vote statewide - – and dominate across the congressional districts -- to have a shot at claiming all those delegates. The importance of every last delegate has increased in recent weeks as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has appeared to outmaneuver Trump’s campaign in the behind-the-scenes preparations for July’s convention. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has been laying the groundwork for a contested convention – - where no candidate has the necessary 1,237 delegates to clinch the nomination – - by getting allies elected as delegates. That way, if voting extends to a second round, some of those pledged to Republican Donald Trump on the first round could peel off and support Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. This has heightened the pressure on Republican Donald Trump to clinch the nomination before the convention, though Cruz’s recent wins have made that harder. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who infamously panned Trump's New York values earlier in the primary, had been bracing for a tough showing in the Empire State. The Texas senator was already looking ahead on the primary calendar, turning The Texas senator attention to Pennsylvania, where The Texas senator delivered a speech calling on Americans to join together to move the country forward. It is time for us to get up, shake it off and be who we were destined to be. – The Texas senator	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
When a party gets to a point when it has a contested convention, it almost always hurts them, it’s a confirmation of some really deep fissures within the party that were unable to be dealt with during the primary season. – Elaine Kamarck	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Their loyalty is not with Senator Cruz. However Senator Cruz has now made Senator Cruz that Trojan horse to push this to a contested convention, this is going to be a very serious problem if Senator Cruz continues to go down this path, and then neither Trump or Ted Cruz becomes the nominee. – Katrina Pierson	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
You can't win the nomination writing off the most diverse states, that is a big message from tonight. For better or worse, they only contested five of the 11 states and the ones they effectively ceded happen to be the most diverse. – Brian Fallon	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There could be situations where some of the non-Havana markets would not be hotly contested, we will likely be in a position to make those determinations and award those frequencies to U.S. carriers in a shorter timeline. – International Affairs Brandon Belford	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's going to make them far more effective, it will most likely increase the sophistication of cyber intrusions and cyber reconnaissance over the long term. It will make them a lot more formidable to sustain cyber operations in a contested environment. – John Costello	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What Justice Scalia is referring to is the 'mismatch theory' popularized by Stuart Taylor and Richard Sander in their book, the idea is that if a student is admitted to a school they are not academically prepared for then they will not perform up to their own potential. This is a theory -- contested of course -- but I don't want people to get the idea that it means that all black students are not as smart as white students, or even that they are not as well prepared across the board. – Carrie Severino	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I was anticipating Manu (Ginobili) or Kawhi to make a play and take the shot, kawhi is their go-to guy pretty much, and Jimmy (Butler) did an incredible job contesting the shot. And then they got the corner shot, which was very well contested and we got a piece of it and won the game. – Centre Pau Gasol	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's my sense that some nations view freedom of the seas as up for grabs, as something that can be taken down and redefined by domestic law or by reinterpreting international law, some nations continue to impose superfluous warnings and restrictions on freedom of the seas in their exclusive economic zones and claim territorial water rights that are inconsistent with (the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea). This trend is particularly egregious in contested waters. – Scott Swift	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I haven't received notification of the decision yet. When I do, I will contest it, as I have already contested it. – Marine Le Pen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They are few but very contested. – Mexican Trade Minister Ildefonso Guajardo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Subject to the resolution of certain critical issues, which the debtors believe can be resolved, the debtors view the REIT transaction as the superior path to exit because it would resolve the vast majority of contested issues in this case. – Energy Future	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The way you really get a good party and a good representation to run for president is by having contested races, that’s what the Republicans are doing. And I think it will serve them well. – Dick Goodson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Hillary has always been much more rational on these issues and much more mainstream, i presume she's going to get the nomination, but she may be contested from the left. – Judd Gregg	Found on CNN 9 years ago
This is not ugly, i would not say this is anticipated to be a highly contested proceeding. – James Wagstaffe	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

Small farmers that have been there 50 years and have deeds issued by the state or federal government, if you kick them out, there aren't conditions there for indigenous people to hunt and fish and have their lives, when the president says he doesn't want more demarcations, he's talking about this type of contested areas.

– Tereza Cristina

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I just hope( Franklin's estate) doesn't end up getting so hotly contested, any time they don't leave a trust or will, there always ends up being a fight.

– Los Angeles

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It was a very close election. Some of our members have lost primaries. That's just what happens in contested primaries.

– Paul Ryan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The scope of this is pretty contested now, courts are struggling through it.

– Jennifer Granick

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Once a case is settled, that adds to the determinacy of the law, what was once a hotly-contested issue is no longer a hotly-contested issue. We move forward.

– Neil Gorsuch

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It was a healthy thing for the Democratic Party to have a contested primary.

– Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We look forward on Tuesday to doing very well, there will be a contested convention. … Super delegates can and have changed their candidate choice in the past.

– Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

In other words, the convention will be a contested contest.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We are headed to Cleveland. There will be a contested convention.

– Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

New York , Sanders vowed. The Republicans were battling for 95 delegates. Republican Donald Trump, originally from Queens, would need to win more than 50 percent of the vote statewide - – and dominate across the congressional districts -- to have a shot at claiming all those delegates. The importance of every last delegate has increased in recent weeks as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has appeared to outmaneuver Trump’s campaign in the behind-the-scenes preparations for July’s convention. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has been laying the groundwork for a contested convention – - where no candidate has the necessary 1,237 delegates to clinch the nomination – - by getting allies elected as delegates. That way, if voting extends to a second round, some of those pledged to Republican Donald Trump on the first round could peel off and support Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. This has heightened the pressure on Republican Donald Trump to clinch the nomination before the convention, though Cruz’s recent wins have made that harder. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who infamously panned Trump's New York values earlier in the primary, had been bracing for a tough showing in the Empire State. The Texas senator was already looking ahead on the primary calendar, turning The Texas senator attention to Pennsylvania, where The Texas senator delivered a speech calling on Americans to join together to move the country forward. It is time for us to get up, shake it off and be who we were destined to be.

– The Texas senator

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

When a party gets to a point when it has a contested convention, it almost always hurts them, it’s a confirmation of some really deep fissures within the party that were unable to be dealt with during the primary season.

– Elaine Kamarck

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Their loyalty is not with Senator Cruz. However Senator Cruz has now made Senator Cruz that Trojan horse to push this to a contested convention, this is going to be a very serious problem if Senator Cruz continues to go down this path, and then neither Trump or Ted Cruz becomes the nominee.

– Katrina Pierson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

You can't win the nomination writing off the most diverse states, that is a big message from tonight. For better or worse, they only contested five of the 11 states and the ones they effectively ceded happen to be the most diverse.

– Brian Fallon

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There could be situations where some of the non-Havana markets would not be hotly contested, we will likely be in a position to make those determinations and award those frequencies to U.S. carriers in a shorter timeline.

– International Affairs Brandon Belford

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's going to make them far more effective, it will most likely increase the sophistication of cyber intrusions and cyber reconnaissance over the long term. It will make them a lot more formidable to sustain cyber operations in a contested environment.

– John Costello

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What Justice Scalia is referring to is the 'mismatch theory' popularized by Stuart Taylor and Richard Sander in their book, the idea is that if a student is admitted to a school they are not academically prepared for then they will not perform up to their own potential. This is a theory -- contested of course -- but I don't want people to get the idea that it means that all black students are not as smart as white students, or even that they are not as well prepared across the board.

– Carrie Severino

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I was anticipating Manu (Ginobili) or Kawhi to make a play and take the shot, kawhi is their go-to guy pretty much, and Jimmy (Butler) did an incredible job contesting the shot. And then they got the corner shot, which was very well contested and we got a piece of it and won the game.

– Centre Pau Gasol

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's my sense that some nations view freedom of the seas as up for grabs, as something that can be taken down and redefined by domestic law or by reinterpreting international law, some nations continue to impose superfluous warnings and restrictions on freedom of the seas in their exclusive economic zones and claim territorial water rights that are inconsistent with (the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea). This trend is particularly egregious in contested waters.

– Scott Swift

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I haven't received notification of the decision yet. When I do, I will contest it, as I have already contested it.

– Marine Le Pen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They are few but very contested.

– Mexican Trade Minister Ildefonso Guajardo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Subject to the resolution of certain critical issues, which the debtors believe can be resolved, the debtors view the REIT transaction as the superior path to exit because it would resolve the vast majority of contested issues in this case.

– Energy Future

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The way you really get a good party and a good representation to run for president is by having contested races, that’s what the Republicans are doing. And I think it will serve them well.

– Dick Goodson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Hillary has always been much more rational on these issues and much more mainstream, i presume she's going to get the nomination, but she may be contested from the left.

– Judd Gregg

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This is not ugly, i would not say this is anticipated to be a highly contested proceeding.

– James Wagstaffe

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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