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Usage examples of contests.

Marcus Duilius, who had passed through a distinguished tribuneship before the creation of the decemvirs, and was never wanting to the commons in their contests with the decemvirs.

For what would have been the consequence if that rabble of shepherds and strangers, fugitives from their own countries, having, under the protection of an inviolable asylum, found liberty, or at least impunity, uncontrolled by the dread of regal authority, had begun to be distracted by tribunician storms, and to engage in contests with the fathers in a strange city, before the pledges of wives and children, and love of the very soil, to which it requires a length of time to become habituated, had united their affections.

Appius Claudius, the son of Appius, who was both hated by and hated the commons, ever since the contests between them and his father.

The loss to the Republican party now was so small as to be unfelt and almost invisible in the political contests into which the party was soon precipitated.

His mind was not pre-occupied and engrossed with political contests or with affairs of state.

In the shifting scenes of our varied partisan contests, the demands of supposed expediency had often produced curious results.

The State contests had been strongly organized on both sides at the decisive points.

His ability, his party devotion, his fearless services as the War Governor of a State which was disturbed with tumult and sedition, his conspicuous part in the Reconstruction contests in the Senate, all marked him as entitled to great consideration.

They believe that it impairs the efficiency of the public service, lowers the standard of political contests, and brings reproach upon the Government and the people.

But the anti-Grant delegates, though divided as to candidates, naturally made common cause, and in the parliamentary contests of the Convention the personal and intellectual ascendency of General Garfield made him, though in a less active and aggressive sense, the recognized leader of the opposition.

The Committee had several contests to deal with besides the important Illinois case.

But even the equality of representation was for a section and not for a party, and its existence did not prevent the free play of contests on other issues.

He signalized his youth by deeds of valor, and displayed a matchless dexterity, as well as strength, in every martial exercise, and even in the less honorable contests of the Olympian games.

The Greek word, which was chosen to express this mysterious resemblance, bears so close an affinity to the orthodox symbol, that the profane of every age have derided the furious contests which the difference of a single diphthong excited between the Homoousians and the Homoiousians.

The fierce contests of the Eastern bishops, the incessant alterations of their creeds, and the profane motives which appeared to actuate their conduct, insensibly strengthened the prejudice of Julian, that they neither understood nor believed the religion for which they so fiercely contended.