Sentence examples for being heavily contested from inspiring English sources

This area near the airport is being heavily contested by members of the standing Gaddafi army, it is not mercenaries.

The move, which is being heavily contested, could force fast food firms to negotiate on wages and allow SEIU to unionise restaurants on a larger scale.

This is heavily contested territory, as both the setting and the style of the debate reflected.

There's the human rights strand, which struggles if the rights space is heavily contested.

The region was heavily contested during the second civil war with Sudan, which began in 1983.

Our situation is very different: we're densely populated and space on our roads is heavily contested.

Indeed, in this and other crimes of sexual violence the term "victim" is heavily contested by survivors.

There was no immediate confirmation of the report about the base, Mazraq al-Shams, which had been heavily contested for days.

Most of its shots were heavily contested, and many that were not seemed rushed, perhaps because the Fighting Irish knew that good opportunities were fleeting.

But technically there is no such thing as an 'English law', and any Speaker's ruling on which votes should be English-only would be heavily contested.

His first was heavily contested by Chris Childs, who hounded and nudged the point guard throughout the fourth quarter, and hit nothing but air.