Sentence examples for contested acts from inspiring English sources

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Duda, in a surprising U-turn, announced that he would veto two out of three contested acts.

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While Abi Morgan's script for The Iron Lady parked politics in favour of personal appraisal, this altogether more polemical work provides a solidly researched and at times surprisingly grim primer on the years leading up to Emily Wilding Davison's still contested act of self-sacrifice in 1913.

Kimberly Ellis' campaign, which was already in the process of reviewing the ballots cast during the state party's convention two weekends ago, said they were filing the challenge to meet a requirement in the party bylaws that such an action must be taken within seven days of the contested act.

Some freak shows eventually faced charges in the 1970s for pornography – as in explicit, exploitative and indecent display – though many of the acts contested this.

Cantor has been a forceful proponent of high-skilled immigration reform and was the nail in the coffin for the widely contested Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) when he decided it would not come to a vote.

The book helped define BSAM as "a creative, aesthetic practice that integrates African diasporic or African metaphysics with science and technology and seeks to interpret, engage, design, or alter reality with a re-imagination of the past, the contested presence, and act as a catalyst for the future".

S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, the leader of the splinter Federal Party (FP or Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi), contested the Ceylon Citizenship Act, which denied citizenship to Tamils of recent Indian origin, before the Supreme Court, and then in the Privy council in England, but failed to overturn it.

Here, those acts were not contested.

The full extent of such acts is hotly contested.

Although the Daddies were experiencing commercial success under the guise of swing revivalists, having been declared the "leaders" of the movement by Rolling Stone, the band openly contested being labeled a retro act at the exclusion of their dominant ska and punk influences and modernist lyricism.

"When plaintiff asks this court to decree following a recount '[t]hat the candidate with the most votes be judged elected,' plaintiff is asking the Court to issue an order that the House of Representatives is bound by the FCEA [Federal Contested Elections Act] not to honor," Vinovich instructed the judge in his letter.

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