Sentence examples for as the contested from inspiring English sources

Most of them may not actually want a divorce from Wallonia, just yet, but they would like a separation, with Brussels as the contested offspring.

It is Thanksgiving week in the year 2000, as the contested presidential election drags on, and the boom years of the 90's are beginning to turn a corner.

Of ASEAN members, Vietnam claims all the Chinese-controlled Paracel islands to the north, as well as the contested Spratly chain to the south, where the claims of Brunei, Malaysia, and, especially, the Philippines, overlap with China's.

To graduate, DuBuc would have to admit to acts that she says she never committed (such as the contested claims of penetration) but to which she'd pleaded guilty, under conditions that she has come to view as coercion.

Mr. Mori, who will meet President Bush at the White House on Monday, arrives not only as the contested leader of a country in crisis, but as the head of a party whose leadership is increasingly under attack from within and without.

But the Senate was shorthanded on its opening day because of the fight over the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Obama to assume the presidency as well as the contested outcome in Minnesota, where the former comedian Al Franken came out on top of the incumbent Republican, Norm Coleman, in a recount that appears headed to court.

As for the contested president Ahmadinejad, he did not even address any internal problems in his speech for the anniversary of the revolution.

The broad map, including such unusual additions as Arizona, Colorado and Louisiana as well as the traditionally contested states like Ohio, is partly the result of the vast amount of money each candidate has raised and their decision to quit a campaign finance system that would put a ceiling on their spending.

As someone from the contested Franco-German borderlands, he tells Indians that he understands all about 'shifting frontiers, upheavals and dislocations, flights and returns, conquests and reconquests'.

Importantly, the social representations lens served as a heuristic for respecting the contested and evolving nature of social knowledge by drawing our attention to the contrasts and commonalities within and between respondent groups.

The Swallows triumphed in Bujumbura as the teams contested the opening leg of their first round clash.