Sentence examples for contested and controlled from inspiring English sources

This article originally appeared on VICE US.

"While the areas contested and controlled by the Taliban haven't changed all that much in the past year, the intensity and effectiveness of Taliban attacks on Afghan security forces certainly has".

After winning independence from colonial rule in the 1940s, Asia's new states policed their contested borders and controlled migration.

Among the world's hotly contested, obsessively controlled, and often dangerous borders, none is deadlier than the Mediterranean Sea.

The urban gardens are contested spaces: though monitored and controlled by Cuban state institutions, they also offer possibilities of crafting life in resistance.

Today, the government is said to "control or influence" 65percentt of the population, while 23percentt is "contested" and 12 percent under Taliban control.

An additional 30% are contested, and 14% are under insurgent control, the Pentagon data showed.

It overreacted after a Chinese trawler rammed a Japanese coastguard vessel in contested waters controlled by Japan.

Also on Thursday, Morocco managed to squash the appointment of a United Nations human rights monitor in Western Sahara, the contested territory controlled by Morocco.

Even more important, Haskell and Westlake suggest, is the impact of "spillover effects". Even in developed countries, the rules governing ownership and control of "ideas" are contested – and competitors are often able to "invent around them". And so, companies cannot be at all certain they will reap the benefits of their investments.

The effect on extortion is non-linear: highly contested places and non-contested places, controlled by a single DTO, show significantly less extortion than moderately contested places.