Sentence examples for been contested for from inspiring English sources

The South China Sea has been contested for centuries.

In Britain the senior Camrose Trophy has been contested for several decades.

And there remains something particularly fraught about the whiteness of Italian-Americans, which has been contested for centuries.

There are at least a dozen varieties of motor sports extant in the United States, some of them having been contested for more than a century.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian troops continued to pound the suburbs of Damascus on Friday, as fighting raged in Aleppo and as rebels in the eastern city of Deir al-Zour reported seizing an armory that had been contested for days.

In 1992 a US Senate report on Asian organised crime – which has been contested for not citing its sources – listed Heung as a senior figure on a Sun Yee On organisation chart, explaining the group was "linked to a wide variety of criminal activities, including heroin trafficking and control of the entertainment industry in Hong Kong".

The details of his crime would be contested for decades.

Bush will be debated and his image will be contested for a long time.

I know that was contested for a while," he said, to laughter and applause.

Zimmerman's not guilty verdict will be contested for years to come.

(This is contested, for the same reasons, by champions of the Morecambe Bay path).