Sentence examples for contested dollars from inspiring English sources

Still, with senior academic scientists and the organizations that lobby for them clamoring for funding, it's unlikely that the Congress and the Administration will spend many scarce and highly contested dollars helping early-career scientists, a group that's invisible on the Washington radar screen.

In January, New York's attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, contested the hundred-million-dollar fee sought by the executors of her estate, who include two of her grandchildren.

Campaign spending in Norwalk and Cerritos continues on a record pace with incumbents and challengers alike pumping thousands of dollars into hotly contested races.

Mr. Aristide's re-election last year has been contested and hundreds of millions of dollars of international aid for Haiti has been suspended.

Australia has received billions of dollars in revenue from contested oil and gas fields which a new border treaty officially confirms belonged to Timor-Leste, civil society groups have claimed.

Attorneys' fees can run millions or even tens of millions of dollars for a heavily contested case litigated through trial.

Unsurprisingly, when a set of laws is both genuinely important and places many billions of dollars at stake, it becomes highly contested.

By such means, which some asset holders have contested, Miller has been largely successful, recovering billions of dollars' worth of assets and regaining control of subsidiaries in former Soviet states and elsewhere.

WASHINGTON ― Since Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein rapidly raised millions of dollars to launch election recounts in three tightly contested states, a number of political analysts, many of them liberal, have wondered whether she is defrauding sentimental activists.

Restoration estimates proffered by the village — and contested by its opponents — ran into the tens of millions of dollars, which some village leaders felt taxpayers would not or should not shoulder.

Appearing on the state's November ballot, Prop 37 has been hotly contested with opponents of GMO labels pouring tens of millions of dollars into efforts to defeat the proposition.