Sentence examples for a contested land from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, at the Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv, a new play reflects the intertwined destinies of two peoples fighting over a contested land.

It will not be lost on anyone who sees it in Edinburgh, in what was once to have been the Scottish Assembly's debating chamber, that the whole tragedy takes place in a contested land.

In a Solomonic judgment, the United Nations voted to divide the contested land into a Jewish state and an Arab state.

Here, it introduces the idea of displacement — a nomadic existence on contested land — and the threat of containment, if not imprisonment.

Supporters gathered Sunday at the small encampment, now across the street from the contested land, for a day that included an outdoor concert.

The contested land is a tan and green plateau in a valley surrounded on all sides by Maasai villages where men have more than one wife and homes are held together by cow dung.

But when it became known that Khoury was Palestinian, and that his father, Elias, was a prominent lawyer who had contested land cases against Israeli settlements, Arafat's office called the Khoury home twice to apologize, and the Brigades declared George a shaheed — a martyr — and said the killing was a case of "mistaken identity".

However, Hindu nationalists, who have long used the issue to rouse passions, felt the judgment opened the way for the building of a new temple on the contested land, pointing to the judges' ruling that the mosque had been built at the site of earlier Hindu temples and on the birthplace of the god-king Ram.

We might end up with a book on the most contested land in the world — the West Bank — that can always be relied upon to bring up a different sort of debate at any dinner party.

Settlement founder Sarah Nachshan and husband moved on to contested land to begin an enormous family which now numbers ten children, a hundred grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.

It leaves us with an awakened Russian bear and a seething, ambitious Prussia, both greedy for contested land steeped in blood and sorrow.