Sentence examples for a contested city from inspiring English sources

London has always been a contested city.

MS. MERCURI ran up against this last year, when she served as a consultant in a contested city council election in Boca Raton, Fla.

In a contested city that holds great religious and political significance for both Israelis and Palestinians, Jerusalem Day inflames tensions like no other event.

The officials said that the discovery a few weeks ago of a cluster of paralyzed young children in Deir al-Zour, a heavily contested city in eastern Syria, had prompted their alarm, and that tests conducted by both the government and rebel sides strongly suggested that the children had been afflicted with polio.

Alyona, 24, is from Debaltseve, a heavily contested city on the frontline of the Ukrainian conflict.

Hebron is a hotly contested city where several hundred Jewish settlers live among almost 200,000 Palestinians.

Last fall, in Statesboro, Ga., in a hotly contested city council race, there were challenges to the registration of about 1,000 Georgia Southern University students who had used dormitory addresses.

Thus, the representation of a highly contested city is at stake.

Its strategic central location at the intersection of the country's road and rail networks ensured it would always be a fiercely contested city.

Earlier on Monday, government troops dug in within less than a mile of the contested city.

JERUSALEM — A small group of ultra-right-wing Israelis marched through a volatile neighborhood of East Jerusalem on Sunday, arousing passions over the future of the contested city as an American envoy wrapped up an inconclusive three-day visit aimed at getting peace talks under way.