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It was a method in the exercise of which the capitalists as a class had proved themselves adepts; they now summoned to their aid all of the ignoble and subterranean devices of criminal politics. In the New York City election of 1886 three parties contested, the Labor party, Tammany Hall and the Republican party.
When he saw her, she hesitated, smiled shamefacedly, and confessed that she had wanted to telephone to him. Together, like a stage chorus, they contested: "I was grouchy " "I was beastly " "I'm honestly sorry " "'ll you forgive " "What was it all about?" "Really, I do not know!" "I agree with lots of the things you " "No, I agree with you, but just at the time you know."
"Had this truly generous man mentioned his intention to me, I should have insisted on a thousand pounds being settled on each of my sisters; George would have contested; I should have seen his selfish soul; and gracious God! have been spared the misery of discovering, when too late, that I was united to a heartless, unprincipled wretch.
Rameses II, in dividing it to his own great disadvantage with the Hatti king by a Treaty whose provisions are known to us from surviving documents of both parties, confessed Egyptian impotence to make good any contested claim; and by the end of the thirteenth century the hand of Pharaoh was withdrawn from Asia, even from that ancient appanage of Egypt, the peninsula of Sinai.
The points of law I carried nineteen times out of twenty, for I had Disney's Abridgement at my fingers ends, and that author's volume we made the umpire in all contested points. Before I proceed any farther, I must say, that, during the whole of this tremendous contest, Mr. Griffith conducted himself in every respect like a gentleman and a man of honour; and when I have said this of Mr.
Here, though the Goths fought bravely, they found themselves too greatly outnumbered, and in the end were put to panic-flight, numbers of them being left dead on the hotly contested field.
The Peace party suffered defeat at the polls, and, amongst others, Cobden himself was turned out at Huddersfield, and Bright and Milner Gibson were his companions in misfortune at Manchester. A vigorous attempt was made to overthrow Lord John in the City, and his timid friends in the neighbourhood of Lombard Street and the Exchange implored him not to run the risk of a contested election.
The battle was obstinately contested and bloody. The left wing of Sulla, which he led in person, gave way as far as the city wall, so that it became necessary to close the city gates; stragglers even brought accounts to Ofella that the battle was lost.
Yet, notwithstanding this defection, the battle was stoutly contested by the ships which remained, especially those of the Chians, and though a very decisive and complete victory was ultimately gained by the Phoenicians and their allies, the cost of the victory was great.
A fund raised by such means was generally called a mons or heap. The propriety of the payment of this percentage was warmly contested during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the Dominicans and Franciscans defending it, and the Augustinians attacking it. But its justification was not difficult.
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