Sentence examples for actively contested from inspiring English sources

The ideal was a single authority, but other monasteries, especially 'Bri-gung and Phag-mo-gru of the Bka'-brgyud-pa sect, whose supporters controlled several myriarchies, actively contested Sa-skya's supremacy.

The race was the first since 1997 to be actively contested in the Derwent River, which leads to the finish line off Constitution Dock in Hobart, the capital of the island state of Tasmania.

"The proposal to mine at Kintyre has been actively contested since the 1980s and will continue to be a priority issue for the environment movement given the high conservation values of the area and the unique risks of uranium mining".

Workers' compensation claims are actively contested by the coal mining firms.

Representation, on and off the canvas, remains a key realm where visibility and influence are actively contested.

For generations, our country denied and actively contested a basic fact of humanity: that nothing about the color of one's skin affects that person's innate rights to freedom and dignity.

There are organisations monitoring the market, art historians examining contested works, archaeologists actively searching for loot, and attorneys and government authorities prepared to prosecute art crimes.

Union elections last June were contested amid rumors that the federal government was actively fomenting division.

If issues of responsibility challenge established criteria of what constitutes scientific excellence and these are no longer in the autonomous domain of agents who actively participate in the practices of science, their very professional identity becomes contested, and congruency between different types of agency is interrupted.

This self-portrait of two of Britain's most intensely private tycoons has been hotly contested in court, with opposing lawyers insisting that the brothers – particularly Sir David Barclay – were actively involved in plotting a complex series of transactions to win control of the business behind Claridge's hotel, which had been labouring under £660m of debts.

Levi Sanders, Sen. Bernie Sanders only biological child, told VICE News that he is actively considering running for Congress in New Hampshire's 1st District, an open seat expected to be one of the most contested in the country in 2018.