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no contest 1. Lit. [in games] a situation where one team fails to appear for a competition. It was declared no contest because the opposing team was stuck in traffic out on the expressway. 2. Fig. a situation where the winner-to-be of a contest is obvious even before holding the contest. It was no contest. The wrestler was so big and strong that no one could have defeated him. not going to win any beauty contests Fig. homely; ugly. Fred isn't going to win any beauty contests, but he's smart and considerate and he does well at his job. This old truck of mine is not going to win any beauty contests, but I wouldn't trade it for anything. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He rightly places these tensions in the context of virtually 14 centuries of contestation. After a century of near limitless corporate autonomy, the exposure of the estate's practices after 1997 and contestation over the replacement of a once untouchable board of trustees by different community action groups, including a teacher's union, the state attorney general, and ultimately the IRS revealed incredible tensions within native Hawaiian communities previously kept out of the public eye. She reads contemporary narratives of slavery both as counterhistories to the official history of slavery imposed by colonial and neocolonial powers and as complications and contestations of the themes of resistance and progress that dominate earlier narratives. |
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