Sentence examples for contested around from inspiring English sources

The America's Cup was first contested around the Isle of Wight in 1851 but it has never been won by a British boat.

WASHINGTON — Not all Democratic presidential convention delegates are awarded like door prizes in the primaries and caucuses being so fiercely contested around the country.

Halliday's (1978 , 1994 social semiotic approach to language, Systemic Functional Linguistics (hereafter SFL), suits the context of the present study: it views knowledge as the product of ongoing situated social literacy practices, contested around the meaning making processes.

Just as in Homeland, Westerns often developed their narrative tension around disputed lands or around contested ideas of governance and sovereignty, but they made invisible the fundamental context of the disputes: land claims.

Plenty of councils, including 23 councils being contested this time around, are under no overall control.

In an election contested by around 100 parties, the front-runners are Nahda and the more secular Nidaa Tounes coalition.

In January, she will lead a three-day course called Contested Histories Around the World, one of a series of workshops for teachers presented by CSET and Stanford Global Studies.

Together, the county organizations raised tens of millions of dollars for the November legislative election, sending much of it to a few closely contested districts around the state.

These entities, objects of top-down policies of development and exploitation, which are the legacies of the colonial past, have become, once again, contested sites around which activism and scholarly activity have coalesced.

Field visits and illustrative on-the-ground case studies that focus on the opportunities, challenges, and contested assumptions around the four key issue areas identified by this initial scoping dialogue have the potential to provide important and constructive perspective.

The religious impact of immigration, largely unnoticed in hotly contested rhetoric around political reform, offers the potential, once again, to enrich our society in ways we have not yet imagined.