While Predators and Reapers have logged more than 1 million hours of combat patrols in the skies over Afghanistan and Iraq, where insurgents don't have the ability to shoot them down, they would be likely to face challenges in the more contested airspace over the Pacific.
Measurement firms tend to agree that IE is losing market share although the percentage share of rival browsers is more hotly contested.
And with Histon and Cambridge both fighting for promotion at the top of the Blue Square Premier, the rivalry seemed stronger than ever and the action on the pitch more hotly contested.
Because it's been - I think that the theory, the corollary theory on the Republican side is that they've been more interested in the Latino vote because that has been perceived as a vote that's more easily contested for.
Australia, with a bit more experience in contested elections, looked toward a similarly tight tilt.
Various cyberwar definitions are hotly contested, even more nuance-laden and have a very material impact on the dramatic claims one might make.
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With less than seven weeks remaining in a tightly contested election, expect more innovations to come.
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"More than 41 seats will probably be contested by the opposition, and possibly by some independents, " he says.
"We want to have more than 50% of the seats contested, " says Hsieh.
Many Congress members were more embarrassed by the fact that their party contested the polls in a seat-sharing alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party, a relatively new group that claims to represent India's untouchables.
But in America, where some 60% of state appellate judges and more than 80% of state trial judges face contested elections, noisy political contests certainly contribute to an endemic lack of confidence in the judiciary, at least at state level. (Federal judges are not elected.) Most states allow candidates to raise funds, often running to millions of dollars.
Analysts say the summit news did help the MDP win 2% more votes, affecting the results of four to six hotly contested races.
Well-funded super PACs took on some ground game efforts for the Romney campaign, and polls conducted in the home stretch found voters in the most hotly contested battlegrounds felt they'd been only slightly more likely to hear from Obama's campaign than Romney's.
What is more, he has been making a profit in one of the most fiercely contested parts of the automobile market, the European compact-car segment.
Factor in some freshmen Democratic senators elected from swing states in Obama's 2008 wave (the last time this batch of seats was contested), and Republicans could run competitive challenges in 10 or more Democrat-held seats.
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It would be folly to expect that a more morally robust public discourse, even at its best, would lead to agreement on every contested question.
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Where forest ownership is contested, because local rights are vague or there are competing title deeds, for example, that becomes more difficult.
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