Sentence examples for contest their control from inspiring English sources

"If the Taliban has obtained political control over important parts of the country, the only way it will get better is if we introduce military forces and contest their control," said Steven Biddle, a defense policy expert at the Council on Foreign Relations who was part of a group that reviewed American strategy last summer.

He said Camden was the first city to contest state control in court.

In mid-1940, the principal concern of the Royal Air Force, together with elements of the Fleet Air Arm, was to contest the control of British airspace with the German Luftwaffe.

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.

Maybe, after each three years of inconclusive combat, each of the two sides should select an elite team to contest control of a small village using both weaponry and political guile over a month's time.

The long-standing enmity between the Ottomans and the Mamlūks arose from their contest to control the Turkoman frontier states north of Syria.

This time, the possibility of an insidious "enemy within" has not been linked to political forces contesting for control of mainstream politics, which was often invoked to justify the excesses of previous hunts for fifth columnists.

Coming in the midst of the American Revolution, the storm caused heavy losses to British and French fleets contesting for control of the area.

The Taliban control much of Kandahar Province and are contesting control of the city.

The Lafers said they were considering nominating their own slate of directors, formally contesting management's control of the company.

It also seemed to spell certain defeat for ABN Amro, a big Dutch bank, with which BPI had been bitterly contesting control of Antonveneta since March.