Sentence examples for contested circumstances from inspiring English sources

It was near here that a riot started Aug. 6, in response to the fatal shooting of a young local man, Mark Duggan, by the police, under heavily contested circumstances, and to the police's subsequent dealings with his family.

It traces almost 100 years of Palestinian history, taking in the Nakba – "the catastrophe", as Palestinians call the period leading up to and following the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 - up to Arafat's death in still contested circumstances near Paris in 2004.

And there is little to cheer in Chasing Shadows (Hardie Grant, Tim Lane and Elliot Cartledgee's life of cricketer and writer Peter Roebuck, who died in contested circumstances in 2011.

West Africa's most prosperous country has been ripped apart by a civil war whose roots trace directly back to the contested circumstances of his succession, and the old regime has been replaced by a predatory authoritarianism under new leaders determined to hang on at all costs.

Nasheed's historic presidency was cut short in 2012 when he resigned under contested circumstances, and his bid for reelection in 2013 was unsuccessful.

In his own case, that life was defined by the publication of a novel called The Meaning of Night in 2006, in the wake of a hotly contested auction and circumstances of production that none of his peers could have envied.

If some Republican incumbent was re-elected with 70 percent of the vote in 2010, but survives the recall with 55 percent of the vote, it would be dubious to cite that as a sign of progress for Democrats since the elections were contested under substantially different circumstances.

Mr Williams said, outside court, in a statement: "This was a hotly contested election run in challenging circumstances.

In cases in which the reasons for an action are dwarfed by the considerations against it, it is usual to report that there is no reason for the action at all; 'there is a reason to do A' typically communicates that there is a relatively weighty reason to do A. Whether or not agents have desire-based reasons in these circumstances remains a contested issue.

One of the paradoxes of the health sector and other high trust social enterprises in circumstances of strongly contested power relationships, is that in order for institutions to function well they need high levels of social legitimacy, that mostly imply universal rights and obligations.

My personal circumstances at the time of the test were extremely difficult, the medical evidence presented was not contested by Ukad, they accepted the circumstances I was in.