Sentence examples for beginning to contest from inspiring English sources

The crisis between the government of the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and the Kurds, who make up 20 per cent of the population, is coming to a head now because a resurgent Iraqi army is beginning to contest control of areas which Kurds captured when Saddam Hussein fell in 2003.

The extracts also show that females are beginning to contest these patriarchal drinking practices, and there is a growing consciousness that irrespective of one's gender, individuals should be allowed to choose the type of alcoholic beverages they want to drink.

They began to contest them.

Immediately following the marriage, however, Frederick began to contest these rights.

Elsewhere, they undertook to reassert Egyptian command of the Red Sea, which the Portuguese had begun to contest during the early 16th century.

This advantage was challenged in the 1980s, when Sinn Féin, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army IRAA), began to contest elections in Northern Ireland.

It was by pulling this qualification lever from the 1960s onwards that young women began to contest the sexist practices and attitudes that they encountered.

But even he expects growth to slow down by next year, as inventories stop piling up.And then there is the Philippines, which has begun to contest Indonesia as the region's most hopeless case.

Beginning in the 1960s, broad antinuclear technology movements began to contest the siting of NPPs at various locations in the United States over concerns of ionizing radiation and the plants' potential for nuclear accidents (Gottlieb 2005).

The Taser was not used, and, moments later, Grimes began to contest the arrest once more.  .

But in 1052 the king and Geoffrey Martel made common cause against William at the same time as some Norman nobles began to contest William's increasing power.