Sentence examples for contestation- from inspiring English sources

"In Egypt, the rules of political discourse and contestation are unclear and contested," Mr. Brown said in an e-mail exchange.

This is the first election since independence where you have keen contestation and equally matched contestants.

It is how Britain's "living constitution", in Walter Bagehot's phrase, has emerged, through parliamentary grandstanding and contestation, and the process has provided good sport for those concerned.

Yet what began as emulation swiftly morphed into contestation.

"It's as if Haiti just won the World Cup," said one American aid worker.The result is technically preliminary, and subject to contestation before the final results are announced on April 16th.

Because of the more unitary and centralized organization of European firms, a distinction between management and labour and the right of management to manage were from the beginning more securely established, and shop-floor contestation between management and labour over the organization of the labour process became much less central to European than to British and American industrial relations.

It sometimes made for contestation, for tough meetings.

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

The French minister of justice, Dominique Perben, demanded an inquiry into Dieudonné's "contestation of crimes against humanity," and the Paris public prosecutor's office began an investigation.

"The violence is a symptom of the contestation taking place between the unions".

It cannot place Islam at the center of political life — and in extreme cases political violence — while at the same time declaring that the religion is off-limits to contestation and ridicule.