Sentence examples for battleground over a from inspiring English sources

Kosovo, the poorest nation in Europe, has been a battleground over a proposed coal-fired power plant.

This month it has turned into an unseemly battleground over a bid by Australia's government and various environmental groups to stop Japan hunting and slaughtering whales.

NORTH SALEM, a town known for genteel horse farms and fragrant apple orchards, may be the next battleground over a proposed luxury golf course and conference center.

The anti-Ikea posters have disappeared, along with the outsiders who turned these quiet streets into a battleground over a proposed superstore that came to symbolize, for many in suburbia, the power of big companies and local government to overrun neighborhoods.

Judge Sifton's decision suddenly turned Mr. Elfgeeh's case into a battleground over the claims of prosecutors in a series of cases in Brooklyn federal court that a network of people centered in Brooklyn may have raised money for terrorism.

This talk will examine the film as a "ghost archive" of competing narratives, a battleground over the meaning and memory of decolonization and Western power, and a site for challenging the current imperial consensus.

Q. College students can have the choice to vote in their college town instead of their hometown, with the possibility of choosing a battleground state over a safe state.

Overall, while the complaint has some legitimate concerns (Facebook should be brutally transparent about what data it stores, and when it will share it with various governments), treating Facebook's tag suggestions as a battleground over the future of facial recognition seems like a mistake.

But the debates over money were inextricably tied to accusations of racism in a district that has long been a battleground over school desegregation.

Despite an abortion rate that is among the lowest in the nation, the state has become a battleground over the issue in recent years, with the Legislature passing a number of laws aimed at curbing abortions, some of which have been overturned by the courts and by voters in two referendums.

Sohail Daulatzai on The Battle of Algiers' "competing narratives, a battleground over the meaning and memory of decolonization and Western power, and a site for challenging the current imperial consensus". David Rivard's most recent book, Standoff, received the 2017 PEN New England Award in Poetry and was listed by The New Yorker in its "Books We Loved in 2016" roundup.