Sentence examples for contestation it from inspiring English sources

While Tunisia has avoided the instability that has threatened to push Egypt back into full-scale contestation, it is clear that tensions are rising and that those tensions are centering on the subject of Islam.

"It's an incredible moment of unsettled universe; there is a great contestation over it.

India's secular democratic state is a site of contestation as it is accused by rightwing Hindu nationalists of pandering to the minorities while the progressives rightly lament its frequent failures to combat anti-minority extremism.

This new account of affective but impartial judgment calls for a politics of liberal rights and democratic contestation, and it requires us to reconceive the meaning of public reason, the nature of sound deliberation, and the authority of law.

The justificatory argument about GMO, in the contestation about its use in agriculture, now refers to hunger in developing countries (which need biotechnical fixes, it appears).

These battles relate to, among others: contestations around what it means to be "authentically" African; citizens' pressuring for democracy, inclusion and leadership accountability; basic needs being met in a context of global inequality wherein rich elites govern over the poor; and women increasingly asserting their sexual rights.

In other words there is no racial nirvana ahead of us; rather, what we will have, given the US's troubled history and disinclination to tackle it, is permanent contestation and contingency.

Rodan explains that there is, however, a central paradox in this recalibration of politics: expanded political participation is serving to constrain contestation more than to enhance it.

Rather, it means that contestation over the meaning of democracy is inherent to the concept itself.

When identity operates as a site of contestation, the channels through which it is mediated such as music and dance become sites of contestation themselves.

We did it and go on doing it with all official contestation of the mortality figures provided by Hamas.