Sentence examples for contested conceptions from inspiring English sources

On any approach, a worry is that if we cite behavioral factors in establishing normality they will reflect contested conceptions of human flourishing.

Such accounts thus tend to gloss over the complex and contested conceptions of environment and disease that informed nineteenth-century public health discourses.

'Community' is a highly contested concept.

Dignity is also a contested concept.

Lukes suggests another, more radical, explanation for the essentially contested nature of the concept of power: our conceptions of power are, according to him, themselves shaped by power relations.

Before jumping into the science, it's worth clarifying what we mean when we talk about the "virgin birth," a term that's frequently contested and often confused with the immaculate conception.

To be plausible in a variously pluralistic social setting, such a view must avoid the twin evils of forcibly imposing a (reasonably) contested value on resistant citizens, on the one hand, and simply abandoning all normative conceptions of social order in favor of open ended struggle for power on the other.

At the same time, China has found much to admire in Russia's resistance of Western pressure and its pursuit of a historical conception of a motherland; China, for its part, is pursuing claims against Japan regarding contested islands in the East and South China Seas.

The plurality of modern political ideologies implies a plurality of different conceptions of human nature – which implies, in turn, that the conservative understanding of human nature is contested.

Everything else was contested.

"They contested every shot.