争夺；竞争
2.competition (real or figurative) for popular support.
3.Two US-based entertainment executives with Merseyside roots have entered the race for control of Liverpool.
4.Thus it has slipped behind universities like Cambridge in the battle for resources that tend to go to more business?minded institutions.
7.The book market expanded rapidly, in which the proprotion of novel books increased constantly, and competitions among various publishing houses for capturing the reader and market became fiercer.
8.2, in the contending of each medal ,there have the most vehemence performance between the first and second competitive-group, the contending between the third group and other groups is on the fighting of silver medal, main performance of the fourth group is on the fighting of Bronze Medal.
10.At the last general election only the Tories and Labour contested the seat, but the Alliance Party has also entered a candidate for the forthcoming by-election, making it a three-cornered fight.
