The "we"—the political subject is always contested, conflicted, unstable.
Yet the actual history of evolutionary thought reveals the vital role of contested, conflicting, or otherwise non-shared concepts.
The men in the Apache helicopter in the video flew into an area that was being contested, during a broader conflict in which a number of helicopters had been shot down.
He has also found much more talk among Zionist leaders -- as well as among British and Jordanian leaders -- of the desirability of transferring Palestinians off the contested land to avoid conflict.
Like the country itself ("la France," a feminine word), Marie de Mézières is contested territory in a conflict that as Roman Catholic fights Protestant on the battlefield, and cousin fights cousin in the bedroom, Mr. Tavernier brings to life with racing cameras, sweeping vistas, lofty words, bawdy deeds and some hard truths.
The complex, and sometimes conflicting and contested inter-relationships at stake raise important questions about the role of the state in wrestling with entrepreneurial and managerialist governance imperatives.
In addition, the courts had agreed with findings, which Ms. Holtzman had contested, that she violated conflict-of-interest laws in taking a loan in that campaign.
Portrait photography in 1865 was no longer innocent about national bonds and national belonging — war changed the politics of portraiture by showing the nation conflicting and contested visions of itself.
Interweaving the narrative are the dual themes of manhood and nationalism, the complex meanings of which, the author contends, were highly conflicted and contested in antebellum America.
Norman rule, however, proved unstable; successions to the throne were contested, leading to violent conflicts between the claimants and their noble supporters.
