Mr. Hersh's interpretation of the fight is sharply contested by General McCaffrey.
What happened next is sharply contested and raises questions about the crucial decision to detain the pirate leaders.
About a possible trade for Sergeant Bergdahl, Mr. Hastings writes: Unofficially, however, his status within the military is sharply contested.
Even in London, where that system is fully operational, MacMillan's decisions have at times been sharply contested.
Though the province has long been sharply contested, this was the first such attack on Maidan Shahr, about an hour's drive from the nation's capital, Kabul, residents said.
That view was sharply contested by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, among others, and by the rank and file of the North Carolina NAACP, which reacted to the omnibus law by staging weekly protests in the streets known as "Moral Mondays".
But his assertion was sharply contested by Richard Cheney, then secretary of defence, and Powell, who said that Schwarzkopf had concurred in the decision by President George H W Bush and senior members of his administration to end the ground war after just four days.
These claims were sharply contested by some specialists in the relevant fields, however, who either did not detect such evidence or argued that the deposits had other causes than a cosmic impact.
Edgar is "queasy" about an Englishness that is so sharply contested by "vocal factions of English Democrats and Campaign for an English Parliament", though, as he points out, the question of "which England is being talked about" has reverberated down the centuries – between "deep England" and "radical England", the rural and urban, the insular and the global.
His race with Mr. Bush is most sharply contested in Midwestern and Great Lakes states, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Missouri.
